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fix typos on README.md (#314)
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security guarantees to their users. Some possible use cases could be:
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- Software written in compiled languages like Rust can attach to their binaries
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proofs of type signatures or other formal properties verified by tools
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proofs of type signatures or other formal properties verified by tools such as
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[Aeneas](https://github.com/AeneasVerif/aeneas). Given mature
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certified compilation infrastructure (e.g. a future
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[CompCert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompCert) equivalent in Lean4),
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seems unlikely given the complexity and modern mathematical infrastructure used
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by the Wiles proof of the first part. Rarely discussed, however, is the third
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part, which is in fact a statement of proof theory, specifically one which
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proposes a information theoretic lower bound to the size of the proof of a
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proposes an information theoretic lower bound to the size of the proof of a
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particular proposition.
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The specific margin in question is [page 85 in the 1621 edition of Diophantus'
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This is quite small, but fortunately not quite as small as a [Groth16 proof over
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BN254](https://2π.com/23/bn254-compression/):
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> A Groth16 proof has two G1 points and one G2. In the BN254 pairing curve these take 64 and 128 bytes respectively uncrompressed totaling 256 bytes for a proof.
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> A Groth16 proof has two G1 points and one G2. In the BN254 pairing curve these take 64 and 128 bytes respectively uncompressed totaling 256 bytes for a proof.
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So if we can show that a Groth16 proof of *a* proof of the first part of
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Fermat's Last Theorem is constructible, we will have clearly - though
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non-constructively- disproven the third part.
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non-constructively- disproven the third part.
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[A Lean 4 formalization of Fermat's Last
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Theorem](https://github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon/FLT) is in progress, and gives

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