cousin_it comments on Formalized math: dream vs reality - Less Wrong

12 Post author: cousin_it 09 July 2009 08:51PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (9)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: cousin_it 10 July 2009 07:32:52AM *  0 points [-]

Yes, this is all being worked on; I didn't mean to imply this stuff was new. Two examples of useful applications: proving the four-color theorem in Coq, and proving the correctness of microprocessors (e.g. floating point division after the notorious Pentium bug) in ACL2.