YES After renaming modulo { n->0, s->1, o->2, t->3, c->4 }, it remains to prove termination of the 6-rule system { 0 1 -> 1 , 2 1 -> 1 , 3 ->= 3 4 0 , 4 0 ->= 0 4 , 4 2 ->= 2 4 , 4 2 ->= 2 } The system was filtered by the following matrix interpretation of type E_J with J = {1,...,2} and dimension 2: 0 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 | | 0 1 | \ / 1 is interpreted by / \ | 1 1 | | 0 1 | \ / 2 is interpreted by / \ | 1 1 | | 0 1 | \ / 3 is interpreted by / \ | 1 1 | | 0 1 | \ / 4 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 | | 0 1 | \ / After renaming modulo { 0->0, 1->1, 3->2, 4->3, 2->4 }, it remains to prove termination of the 5-rule system { 0 1 -> 1 , 2 ->= 2 3 0 , 3 0 ->= 0 3 , 3 4 ->= 4 3 , 3 4 ->= 4 } 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 0 1 | \ / 1 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 | | 0 1 0 | | 0 1 0 | \ / 2 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 1 | | 0 1 0 | | 0 0 0 | \ / 3 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 | | 0 1 0 | | 0 0 0 | \ / 4 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 | | 0 1 0 | | 0 0 0 | \ / After renaming modulo { 2->0, 3->1, 0->2, 4->3 }, it remains to prove termination of the 4-rule system { 0 ->= 0 1 2 , 1 2 ->= 2 1 , 1 3 ->= 3 1 , 1 3 ->= 3 } The system is trivially terminating.