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stousetyesterday at 10:13 PM0 repliesview on HN

If I understand correctly, the only thing you need to do for correctness is express your axioms and your theorems faithfully. For standard purposes, I assume most of the axioms you want to use are prior art and can be easily reused.

These axioms don’t have to be the core axioms of math. If some other result has been formally proven, I presume you can simply use that result as an axiom.

As long as you do those things, what happens in between is immaterial from a correctness point of view because each of those statements is proved by the statements before them.