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Comment by 414owen

Wow, okay. I would imagine this makes mathematicians quite angry? I guess you're responsible for all the operations you use in your proof being well-behaved.

It sounds like subtraction over Nats needs to be split into `sub?`, and `sub!`, the former returning an option, and the latter crashing, on underflow, as is the Lean convention?

To use the default `sub`, you should need to provide a witness that the minuend is >= the subtrahend...

The version with silent underflow is still useful, it should just be called `saturatingSub`, or something, so that mathematicians using it know what they're getting themselves into...

parent 414owen 10 months ago

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