YES Consider the TRS R consisting of the following rewrite rules: \(x,x) -> e /(x,x) -> e .(e,x) -> x .(x,e) -> x \(e,x) -> x /(x,e) -> x .(x,\(x,y)) -> y .(/(y,x),x) -> y \(x,.(x,y)) -> y /(.(y,x),x) -> y /(x,\(y,x)) -> y \(/(x,y),x) -> y The TRS R is transformed (by dropping rewrite rules whose left-hand sides contain a function symbol which does not occur in any right-hand side) into a TRS R' which is empty. Hence R is terminating. _______________________________________________________________ TTTbox (0.003 seconds) - April 13, 2007 Source file - /home/ami/mkorp/Testbench/tpdb-3.2/TRS/D33/01.trs