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Church-Rosser theorem

The Church-Rosser theorem states that, in the lambda calculus, a term has at most one normal form. Specifically, if two different reductions of a term both terminate in normal forms, then the two normal forms will be identical. It is the Church-Rosser theorem that justifies references to "the normal form" of a certain term.

The theorem was discovered in 1937 by Alonzo Church and J. Barkley Rosser[?].

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