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A Lean proof of the chocolate tablet theorem
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| -- Chocolate Bar Theorem 🍫, as illustrated in https://www.instagram.com/p/CzGr1yfAHFB/ | |
| -- Credits: https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/113489-new-members/topic/Formulating.20the.20chocolate.20bar.20theorem | |
| -- Run on https://live.lean-lang.org/ | |
| inductive ChocoTablet : Nat -> Nat -> Type where | |
| | square : ChocoTablet 1 1 | |
| | hJoin : ChocoTablet a b -> ChocoTablet a b' -> ChocoTablet a (b + b') | |
| | vJoin : ChocoTablet a b -> ChocoTablet a' b -> ChocoTablet (a + a') b | |
| def ChocoTablet.cuts : ChocoTablet a b -> Nat | |
| | square => 0 | |
| | hJoin tablet1 tablet2 => tablet1.cuts + tablet2.cuts + 1 | |
| | vJoin tablet1 tablet2 => tablet1.cuts + tablet2.cuts + 1 | |
| theorem ChocoTablet.size_cuts_equation: ∀ tablet : ChocoTablet a b, tablet.cuts + 1 = a * b | |
| | square => rfl | |
| | hJoin tablet1 tablet2 => by | |
| rw [cuts, Nat.mul_add, Nat.add_assoc, Nat.add_add_add_comm, | |
| <-size_cuts_equation, <-size_cuts_equation] | |
| | vJoin tablet1 tablet2 => by | |
| rw [cuts, Nat.add_mul, Nat.add_assoc, Nat.add_add_add_comm, | |
| <-size_cuts_equation, <-size_cuts_equation] | |
| #print ChocoTablet.size_cuts_equation |
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