Consider the TRS R consisting of the rewrite rules 1: filter(cons(X),0,M) -> cons(0) 2: filter(cons(X),s(N),M) -> cons(X) 3: sieve(cons(0)) -> cons(0) 4: sieve(cons(s(N))) -> cons(s(N)) 5: nats(N) -> cons(N) 6: zprimes -> sieve(nats(s(s(0)))) There are 2 dependency pairs: 7: ZPRIMES -> SIEVE(nats(s(s(0)))) 8: ZPRIMES -> NATS(s(s(0))) The approximated dependency graph contains no SCCs and hence the TRS is trivially terminating.