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De Bruijn Numerals

marvinborner
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tech

Key topics

lambda calculus

programming languages

mathematics

Debate intensity20/100

The article discusses De Bruijn numerals, a way of representing numbers using lambda calculus, and their potential applications in programming languages.

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sargstuff
1d ago
Seems like an abstract/symbolic variation related to tetration[0]

[0] : tetration : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration

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