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Re:Two-hundred-terabyte math proof is largest ever by Certhas on Friday May 27, 2016 @11:39AM (#11786701)
Every conjecture that is provable can be proved by the proposed program of length (conjecture + constant) in finite time.

That was the original statement:

> you can encode any proof to a few hundred lines.

This type of encoding is funny of course. You can not determine from the encoding of the proof whether the encoding is the encoding of a proof (as you point out). But if you have a proof, and thus know that a proof exists you can "encode" it very succinctly in this program for whatever that is worth.

Re:Two-hundred-terabyte math proof is largest ever by ifdefdebug on Friday May 27, 2016 @12:21PM (#11787014)
> you can encode any proof to a few hundred lines.

Yeah, I misread that. The sentence implies the existence of a proof. So I was clearly talking about something different. Thanks.