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by gus_massa 263 days ago
How does it escale for NxN system? Let's say N=10 that is the maximal amount I'd write by hand (in exchange for a lot of money).

I took a look at the example and it's very intuitive. I'm trying to guess which heuristics is it using. Does it try to find exact matches of whatever is inside the parenthesis?

@GP?: Doesn't Lean have a "please fill the blanks" mode for short proof?

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> @GP?: Doesn't Lean have a "please fill the blanks" mode for short proof?

Yes, there are several depending on what you want to do. The catchall is `simp` (short for 'simplify').

Why do we need more than one "do what I mean" command? (Or more than zero "do what I say" commands?) Because it's impossible to know what you mean. If you try to use a lot of `simp`, you'll notice that you often have to tell it what to do.

Note that what we really want for this problem is a linear algebra package that can do row reduction, not a formal prover. This problem is all arithmetic.