YES After renaming modulo { a->0, c->1, b->2 }, it remains to prove termination of the 3-rule system { 0 1 2 -> 2 0 2 0 , 0 0 -> 0 2 0 , 2 ->= 2 1 } The system was filtered by the following matrix interpretation of type E_J with J = {1,...,2} and dimension 4: 0 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 1 0 | | 0 1 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 1 0 | \ / 1 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 | | 0 0 0 1 | | 0 0 0 0 | \ / 2 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 | | 0 1 1 1 | \ / After renaming modulo { 0->0, 2->1, 1->2 }, it remains to prove termination of the 2-rule system { 0 0 -> 0 1 0 , 1 ->= 1 2 } The system was filtered by the following matrix interpretation of type E_J with J = {1,...,2} and dimension 3: 0 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 1 | | 0 1 0 | | 0 1 0 | \ / 1 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 | | 0 1 0 | | 0 0 0 | \ / 2 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 | | 0 1 0 | | 0 0 0 | \ / After renaming modulo { 1->0, 2->1 }, it remains to prove termination of the 1-rule system { 0 ->= 0 1 } The system is trivially terminating.