Meaning & use
Provers
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People or systems that demonstrate the truth or validity of something, especially in mathematics or logic.
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The mathematics department developed an automated theorem prover to check complex proofs.
Software provers are used to verify that a program behaves as intended.
A note on using this word
Most commonly encountered in the compound term 'theorem prover', a computer program that constructs or checks mathematical proofs.
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