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Questions about normal forms in various contexts, for example normal forms of context-free grammars (Chomsky normal form, Greibach normal form), of formulas (conjunctive normal form, disjunctive normal form), and others.

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Identifying/equating constants in a term rewrite system

Counterexample: $f(c) \rightarrow f(d)$ In general, there are some modularity theorems for termination and confluence that may apply if, e.g. your constants do not appear at all in any rule. There …
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When are you supposed to eta-reduce?

Here are some crucial properties about $\beta$ and $\eta$ reductions that explain the strategies for computing normal forms. We write $\rightarrow_\beta, \rightarrow_\eta$ for a single step of $\beta …
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