lambda-reikningur
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Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A calque of the English lambda calculus from the Greek character lambda (“lambda; λ”) and reikningur (“mathematics, arithmetic”).
Noun
[edit]lambda-reikningur m (genitive singular lambda-reiknings, nominative plural lambda-reikningar)
- (computer theory) lambda calculus; (any of a family of functionally complete algebraic systems in which lambda expressions are evaluated according to a fixed set of rules to produce values, which may themselves be lambda expressions)