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> Every mathamatician knows that the integer 1 and the real number 1 different objects

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The integer 1 is the same as the real number 1 ,is the same as the odd number 1, is the same as the perfect square 1, etc.

ℤ ⊂ ℝ

That this is the top-voted comment on this thread.....



> ℤ ⊂ ℝ That is not at all obvious without some canonical isomorphism acting on ℤ, or at least is a behaviour strictly dependent on your particular set theoretic construction of the reals.

E.g. for the cauchy sequence construction of the reals, the image of the integer 1 under this canonical isomorphism would be the equivalence class of the sequence (1,0,0,0,...), but these are of course not the same object in a set theoretic sense.


I think he literally just demonstrated the problem you were trying to illustrate about software provers




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