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A Tough Nut for Proof Procedures

McCarthy, John (1964) A Tough Nut for Proof Procedures. [Preprint]

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Abstract

It is well known to be impossible to tile with dominoes a checkerboard with two opposite corners deleted. This fact is readily stated in the first order predicate calculus, but the usual proof which involves a parity and counting argument does not readily translate into predicate calculus. We conjecture that this problem will be very difficult for programmed proof procedures,.

Item Type:Preprint
Subjects:Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence
ID Code:414
Deposited By: McCarthy, John
Deposited On:27 Feb 1998
Last Modified:11 Mar 2011 08:53

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