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How to pronounce “beta reduction”

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Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of beta reduction with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Assaulting Alzheimer's Diseasethat we came to discover called the beta-amyloid protein.
Definition summary: The act of beta reducing, an instance of replacing a function call by the result of calling a function.

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How to pronounce beta reduction

Assaulting Alzheimer's Disease

that we came to discover called the beta-amyloid protein.

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A Deep Dive Into “beta reduction”

Meaning

[Noun]
The act of beta reducing, an instance of replacing a function call by the result of calling a function.
(computing theory) One of the three rewrite rules of the lambda calculus, which states that the application of a lambda abstraction
(
λ
x
.
t
)
{\displaystyle (\lambda x.t)}
to a term
s
{\displaystyle s}
yields an expression
t
[
s
/
x
]
{\displaystyle t[s/x]}
, "t with s instead of x", where all free instances of x in t have been replaced by s.

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