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a total and turing complete [?] programming language - raoofha/Ar

notice that we can use integers instead of inc so only three functions is needed for programming you can see that in the limit (unbounded program length) these four functions are turing complete since diagonal argument is blocked it is an open question whether you can define universal functions in this language

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