YES After renaming modulo { b->0, a->1 }, it remains to prove termination of the 3-rule system { 0 1 1 0 -> 1 1 1 1 , 1 0 0 1 -> 0 0 0 0 , 0 ->= 0 0 0 } The system was filtered by the following matrix interpretation of type E_J with J = {1,...,2} and dimension 14: 0 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 | \ / 1 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | \ / After renaming modulo { 0->0, 1->1 }, it remains to prove termination of the 2-rule system { 0 1 1 0 -> 1 1 1 1 , 0 ->= 0 0 0 } The system was filtered by the following matrix interpretation of type E_J with J = {1,...,2} and dimension 5: 0 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 1 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 0 | \ / 1 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 1 0 | | 0 0 0 0 1 | | 0 0 0 0 0 | \ / After renaming modulo { 0->0 }, it remains to prove termination of the 1-rule system { 0 ->= 0 0 0 } The system is trivially terminating.