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On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 01:31:33PM +0100, Fangyi Zhou wrote: > [ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] > > Dear TYPES mailing list > > Let M -> N. > > It appears to me that the terminology for terms before reduction (M) is > sometimes called a reducible expression (redex), although the concept of redex > seems to be more general than that. The word that came to mind when I had just read the title of this post was 'reduct'. > > Is there an agreed terminology for the term after reduction (N)? > The wikipedia page for lambda calculus (without giving any sources) calls the > expression to which a redex reduces to a 'reduct', but I've seen other words > used such as 'reductum'. I suspect that is for writers that use latin to give their writing a classical sound. -- hendrik > > Apologies if the question is silly. > > Best, > Fangyi > > -- > Fangyi Zhou (Pronouns: they/them) > PhD Student > Mobility Reading Group > Department of Computing > Imperial College London >