We are left with following problem, upon which TcT provides the certificate YES(?,O(n^1)). Strict Trs: { g(s(x)) -> f(x) , g(0()) -> 0() , f(s(x)) -> s(s(g(x))) , f(0()) -> s(0()) } Obligation: runtime complexity Answer: YES(?,O(n^1)) The input is overlay and right-linear. Switching to innermost rewriting. We are left with following problem, upon which TcT provides the certificate YES(?,O(n^1)). Strict Trs: { g(s(x)) -> f(x) , g(0()) -> 0() , f(s(x)) -> s(s(g(x))) , f(0()) -> s(0()) } Obligation: innermost runtime complexity Answer: YES(?,O(n^1)) The input was oriented with the instance of 'Small Polynomial Path Order (PS)' as induced by the safe mapping safe(g) = {}, safe(s) = {1}, safe(f) = {}, safe(0) = {} and precedence g ~ f . Following symbols are considered recursive: {g, f} The recursion depth is 1. For your convenience, here are the satisfied ordering constraints: g(s(; x);) > f(x;) g(0();) > 0() f(s(; x);) > s(; s(; g(x;))) f(0();) > s(; 0()) Hurray, we answered YES(?,O(n^1))