Church encoding

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Etymology

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Named after Alonzo Church.

Noun

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Church encoding (countable and uncountable, plural Church encodings)

  1. (mathematics) A means of representing data and operators in the lambda calculus, by forming them into a mathematical structure embedded in the lambda calculus.
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