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by Agingcoder 1793 days ago
Not really.

There's 'understand', and 'believe you understand', and in other fields (say, software engineering...) you meet lots of people who think they understand, when they don't. I also think that in the SE case, because it's more 'relatable' ('look at my website') , people generally assume more easily that they understand when they don't.

Also if you look at theoretical comp sci results (calculability theory, etc) , or even complex software engineering systems (actual working distributed systems, etc) , I very much doubt that many people (apart from the people who designed and wrote them, and who may even be wrong about them! ) can _actually_ claim to understand them fully. You will understand, to some extent, the 'theorem' (ie the system), but the implementation will remain a black box.