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by angrais 1262 days ago
>> I've had to write short inductive proofs in several of the systems I've built.

In what context was this necessary?

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This is pretty common in the Blockchain space to verify transactions behave correctly when arriving out of sync with tools like Agda, Coq, etc... I assume it's the same on databases & I heard Leslie Lamport give a talk at work where he mentioned AWS used TLA+ to prove some of its properties.
To provide evidence that a recursive algorithm actually works maybe?