Re:Two-hundred-terabyte math proof is largest ever
by ifdefdebug on Friday May 27, 2016 @12:21PM
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> 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.
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.