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Factorial and Fibonacci using Church-encoded numbers
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// Can we write programs without control flow, variables, or even recursion? | |
// Well, of course we can! Church did that with pen and paper! :) | |
const to_num = (n) => n((x) => x + 1)(0) | |
const ZERO = (f) => (x) => x | |
const ONE = (f) => (x) => f(x) | |
const TWO = (f) => (x) => f(f(x)) | |
const THREE = (f) => (x) => f(f(f(x))) | |
const FOUR = (f) => (x) => f(f(f(f(x)))) | |
console.log(to_num(ZERO)) | |
console.log(to_num(ONE)) | |
console.log(to_num(FOUR)) | |
const SUCC = (n) => (f) => (x) => f(n(f)(x)) | |
const FIVE = SUCC(FOUR) | |
const SIX = SUCC(FIVE) | |
const SEVEN = SUCC(SIX) | |
const EIGHT = SUCC(SEVEN) | |
console.log(to_num(EIGHT)) | |
const PLUS = (n) => (m) => (f) => (x) => | |
n(f)(m(f)(x)) | |
console.log(to_num(PLUS(EIGHT)(FIVE))) | |
const MULT = (n) => (m) => (f) => (x) => | |
n(m(f))(x) | |
console.log(to_num(MULT(EIGHT)(FIVE))) | |
const PRED = (n) => (f) => (x) => | |
n((g) => (h) => h(g(f)))((u) => x) ((u) => u) | |
console.log(to_num(PRED(MULT(EIGHT)(FIVE)))) | |
const MINUS = (n) => (m) => | |
m(PRED)(n) | |
console.log(to_num(MINUS(EIGHT)(FIVE))) | |
const PAIR = (a) => (b) => (f) => | |
f(a)(b) | |
const FIRST = (p) => | |
p((a) => (b) => a) | |
const SECOND = (p) => | |
p((a) => (b) => b) | |
// 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, ... | |
const FIB = (n) => | |
// Corecursion | |
FIRST( | |
// Step | |
n(p => | |
PAIR(SECOND(p))(PLUS(FIRST(p))(SECOND(p))) | |
// Seed | |
)(PAIR(ZERO)(ONE))) | |
console.log(to_num(FIB(EIGHT))) | |
// 1, 1, 2, 6, 24, 120, ... | |
const FAT = (n) => | |
// Corecursion again | |
SECOND( | |
// Step | |
n(p => | |
PAIR(SUCC(FIRST(p)))( MULT(FIRST(p))(SECOND(p))) | |
// Seed | |
)(PAIR(ONE)(ONE))) | |
console.log(to_num(FAT(FIVE))) |
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