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0 pointskoito1716d ago0 comments

> approximately no one has heard of

Just cause it isn't used for webshit doesn't mean "approximately no one" has heard of it.

Lean is pretty much the most popular language mathematicians use today for computer-assisted proofs. More mature audiences may know about Rocq, Isabelle, etc., but Lean was already popular enough for a few people I know to have written their PhD theses on it about a decade ago.

I think GP is joking about a port to Lean because that would at least produce a formally verifiable output.

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HeavyStorm16d ago· 1 in thread

Oh, PhDs, you're right, that's not approximately no one... It's probably approximately one.

I like Lean (and more generally dependent types) but ffs Lean has a very, very small userbase for a project like this. GGP would have to really justifyv the benefits for such a switch.

jcelerier16d ago

Apparently roughly ~150k math PhDs live on earth right now, assuming they all know Lean that's between 0.001% and 0.002% of earth population so quite closer to no one than one

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