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by hammock 555 days ago
How does this work? I'm on step 1 and I typed in "rfl 37=37" and nothing happened. I'm not a coder
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You only type in the reasons, not the results. Lean computes the result for you. Otherwise, if you do all the work yourself, you wouldn't need Lean :-)
I still am completely lost. Can you give me the answer so I can see what input is supposed to look like?

In my head I want to solve it with 37=37, x=x and q=q. And then run rfl

If it shows you something of the form `X=X` like `37=37`, you then type in `rfl` to assert that they are equal by the reflective property which completes the proof.
You can just type in `rfl` to assert that `37 = 37` (or anything of the form `X = X`).
I typed in rfl and hit execute and nothing happened (it added a line above but did not say I solved anything)