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[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

I don't think you're picking up what I'm putting down. I'm not arguing that the return value can be 1, I'm well aware that it can't — I wrote the function so that it will always return 0. It only returns 1 if we make an incorrect assumption (and mix up semantics with formal logic, but that's another conversation), the incorrect assumption being "if is equivalent to if, and only if"

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

Sorry! I sometimes get carried away on correctness.

[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean, making an assumption and arriving to a contradiction is as correct as a proof gets.

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