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These days programming languages actually are used for expressing proofs. They can automatically check them to. For example the Coq theorem proving language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq

Some would argue that writing code IS more fault proof than writing proofs the traditional way.




I would still trust a mathematical argument I can understand over the output of some automated theorem prover.

Of course these aren't mutually exclusive, provided the theorem prover is simple enough to understand.




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