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Re:'A-Team' of Math Proves a Critical Link Between Addition ... by staunton on Sunday December 10, 2023 @02:42PM (#38594279)
It's not useful to prove that "your program does what you want, provided the following 10000 functions implemented in C do what we assumed they do". Almost certainly at least one of them doesn't.

There isn't even a straightforward (let alone verified) way to list all assumptions of this type for some proof (you can print the axioms that a definition depends on, but that's not the same thing). It's possible to prove `false` in Lean using functions you'd normally use to make pretty much any useful program.

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