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Kranar | 5 months ago

This is true in general for every mathematical proof in ZFC (and even in more powerful theories). The decision problem "Given a formula F and an integer n, is there a ZFC proof of F of length <= n?" is NP complete, meaning that verifying the proof can be done in polynomial time while deriving the proof can require an exponential amount of time.

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