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dcre • yesterday at 5:56 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Not quite — the formal statement of the problem in Lean may be correct, and therefore the Lean proof gives quite a lot of confidence that the statement is true. It's just that the proof given in natural language doesn't necessarily match up with the Lean proof, so the natural language proof might be unsound even though the statement it's proving is true.


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icedrift • yesterday at 7:37 PM

I was having trouble wrapping my head around it but this cleared it up.