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Why can they? You can't assume fully explicit proofs are practical just because they're plausible. The justification of practicality will be highly nontrivial. If its impractical to write such a textbook then code folding gets you nothing.


If it is impractical now, that simply means the software needs improvement. If mathematicians stop being so accepting of informal proofs then there is a very strong incentive to improve the software.


> that simply means

The point is that it's not simple. It will require significant advances in computer science.




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