doc-src/TutorialI/Misc/prime_def.thy
author chaieb
Wed, 19 May 2004 11:23:59 +0200
changeset 14758 af3b71a46a1c
parent 11457 279da0358aa9
child 16417 9bc16273c2d4
permissions -rw-r--r--
A new implementation for presburger arithmetic following the one suggested in technical report Chaieb Amine and Tobias Nipkow. It is generic an smaller. the tactic has also changed and allows the abstaction over fuction occurences whose type is nat or int.

(*<*)
theory prime_def = Main:;
consts prime :: "nat \<Rightarrow> bool"
(*>*)
text{*
\begin{warn}
A common mistake when writing definitions is to introduce extra free
variables on the right-hand side.  Consider the following, flawed definition
(where @{text"dvd"} means ``divides''):
@{term[display,quotes]"prime(p) == 1 < p & (m dvd p --> (m=1 | m=p))"}
\par\noindent\hangindent=0pt
Isabelle rejects this ``definition'' because of the extra @{term"m"} on the
right-hand side, which would introduce an inconsistency (why?). 
The correct version is
@{term[display,quotes]"prime(p) == 1 < p & (!m. m dvd p --> (m=1 | m=p))"}
\end{warn}
*}
(*<*)
end
(*>*)