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church encoding

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English

Syllables
church en-cod-ing
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Named after Alonzo Church.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Church encodings (plural)

Phrases

Church numeral Church pair Church's theorem

Frequently Paired Words

Church numeral Church pair Church's theorem

Questions

What does church encoding mean?
A means of representing data and operators in the lambda calculus, by forming them into a mathematical structure embedded in the lambda calculus.
Where does church encoding come from?
Named after Alonzo Church.

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