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What do you mean? Numbers in functional programming? If you really want them, I suppose you could implement them using the Church encoding.

Really, though, I'm surprised you'd want to consider doing it. These "numbers" sound far too involved and elaborate for the lambda calculi and their children. Better stick to the tasks functional programming was designed for, like writing fixpoint combinators and being snide in comment threads. ;)




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