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| | Dependent types provide an unprecedented level of type safety. A quick example is a type-safe printf implementation. They are also useful for theorem proving. According to the Curry-Howard correspondence, mathematical propositions can be represented in a program as types. An implementation that satisfies a given type serves as a proof of the corresponding proposition. In other words, inhabited types represent true propositions.
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| | This is part 9 of Categories for Programmers. Previously: Functoriality. See the Table of Contents. So far I've been glossing over the meaning of function types. A function type is different from other types. Take Integer, for instance: It's just a set of integers. Bool is a two element set. But a function type a->b...
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| The most common question students have about mathematics is "when will I ever use this?" Many math teachers would probably struggle to give a coherent answer, beyond being very good at following precise directions. They will say "critical thinking" but not much else concrete. Meanwhile, the same teachers must, with a straight face, tell their...