YES (ignored inputs)COMMENT Example 1 of DOI:10.1007/s00200-004-0148-6 Rewrite Rules: [ f(f(a)) -> f(f(f(a))), f(f(a)) -> f(a) ] Apply Direct Methods... Inner CPs: [ ] Outer CPs: [ f(f(f(a))) = f(a) ] Overlay, check Innermost Termination... unknown Innermost Terminating unknown Knuth & Bendix Linear unknown Development Closed unknown Strongly Closed unknown Weakly-Non-Overlapping & Non-Collapsing & Shallow unknown Upside-Parallel-Closed/Outside-Closed (inner) Parallel CPs: (not computed) unknown Toyama (Parallel CPs) Simultaneous CPs: [ f(a) = f(f(f(a))), f(f(f(a))) = f(a) ] unknown Okui (Simultaneous CPs) unknown Strongly Depth-Preserving & Root-E-Closed/Non-E-Overlapping unknown Strongly Weight-Preserving & Root-E-Closed/Non-E-Overlapping check Locally Decreasing Diagrams by Rule Labelling... Critical Pair by Rules <1, 0> preceded by [] joinable by a reduction of rules <[], [([(f,1)],1),([],1)]> Satisfiable by 1,2; f(0); 1>2 Diagram Decreasing Direct Methods: CR Final result: CR 223.trs: Success(CR) (2 msec.)