bennofs
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So this is meant to illustrate that the limit on debt is more a function of the concrete circumstances. In this line of argumentation, debt is not limited by a mathematical formula that just takes GDP and similar statistics as input.
In many cases, a bug in the translation simply makes the proof impossible. Somebody then investigates why the proof does not go through and finds the bug in the translation.
We only have a problem if the bug in the translation specificially cancels a bug in the original code. If there is no systematic risk, it is quite unlikely that two bugs cancel each other in this way.