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Nuclear power plants, the standard example of software that must be proved correct, do not care about formal verification: thorough testing is enough for them.

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formal proof Machine-checked mathematics: proof assistants such as Lean, and what changes when correctness is certified rather than refereed.

nuclear power Fission as an energy source: what it costs, what it risks, and whether anything else can do the job.

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  1. Hillel Wayne

    Writer and consultant on formal methods

    but I can tell you with first hand experience nuclear power plants do not care about this stuff. They're actually just fine with with with thorough testing.

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