We are left with following problem, upon which TcT provides the certificate YES(?,O(n^1)). Strict Trs: { f(S(x), x2) -> f(x2, x) , f(0(), x2) -> 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(f) = {}, safe(S) = {1}, safe(0) = {} and precedence empty . Following symbols are considered recursive: {f} The recursion depth is 1. For your convenience, here are the satisfied ordering constraints: f(S(; x), x2;) > f(x2, x;) f(0(), x2;) > 0() Hurray, we answered YES(?,O(n^1))