Re:Programming Languages Going Above and Beyond
by xigoi on Thursday June 29, 2023 @06:32PM
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It is currently not known whether π is a normal number (that is, its representation in any base contains any finite sequence of digits with the same density as in a uniformly random string of digits).
But this is of a theoretic interest. In practice the verifier says: "I can't prove that this function will terminate within (some reasonable window), program rejected". And this is what's actually needed: a program that provably has certain properties, where an automatic proof is tractable.