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Maybe a tall order, but if someone has it in them to provide a clear and simple explanation of SMT/SAT at the level of an intrigued layman, that'd be amazing. I've looked at the Wikipedia pages a few times and always just feel kinda overwhelmed. I'm probably missing the education in formal logic/math to understand why these are fruitful models, but they obviously are. Is this a kind of forefront of artificial reasoning research? What are some examples of problems they can help solve, and approximately what would be involved in modelling those problems within the formalization?



They're a good model in part because they're the most fundamental model of a number of equivalent ones, and the one for which there has been the largest amount of work on creating performant implementations.




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