In Church encoding of the natural numbers in lambda calculus raising zero to the power zero gives the answer zero. Does anybody know of an encoding where the answer is 1?
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zero raised to power zero in Church encoding
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Another different calculation ((\m.\n. ((n (\m.\n.\f. (m (n f)))) f x))(\f.\x.x)(\f.\x.x)):
Calculations done using: http://www.cburch.com/lambda/index.html