| Description: This proof of bii 140,
discovered by Gregory Bush on 8-Mar-04, has
several curious properties. First, it has only 17 steps directly
from the axioms and df-bi 128, compared to over 800 steps were the proof
of bii 140 expanded into axioms. Second, step 2 demands
only the property
of "true"; any axiom (or theorem) could be used. Third, it
illustrates
how intermediate steps can "blow up" in size even in short
proofs.
Fourth, the compressed proof is only 2.5 lines long, but the web page
is over 200kB in size. If there were an obfuscated code contest for
proofs, this might be a winner. |