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Re:Fun with SKI Calculus by jasonincanada on Saturday August 06, 2022 @03:37PM (#32370909)
You might find my orbit-diagrams repo interesting: https://github.com/jasonincanada/orbit-diagrams

It's a way to render function application/composition in 3D. In particular you'd probably like the proof of B = S (K S) K:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jasonincanada/orbit-diagra...

Re:Fun with SKI Calculus by jabbawookiees on Sunday August 07, 2022 @01:54AM (#32374220)
I have no experience with SKI calculus so I may be misinterpreting how to apply these functions. But it seems to me that the definition of F doesn't work quite right. After trying my own hand at it for several minutes and getting stuck, I looked at the Wikipedia page and found a different definition for S.

I don't know of these two systems with the same name are computationally equivalent or if the author simply made a crucial mistake in the definitions.

Re:Fun with SKI Calculus by zen_lava on Sunday August 07, 2022 @10:25AM (#32376725)
Oops the author has indeed made a crucial late-at-night-stare-at-the-screen-too-much typo, thanks for pointing it out! Fixed.