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Proving that 1 + 1 = 2 in Rust

The fact that 1 + 1 is equal to 2 is one of those things that is so obvious it may be hard to justify why. Fortunately mathematicians have devised a way of formalizing arithmetic and subsequently proving that 1 + 1 = 2. Natural numbers are based on the Peano axioms. They are a set of simple rules that define (along with a formal system) what natural numbers are. So in order to prove 1 + 1 = 2 in Rust we first need a formal system capable of handling logic. The formal system that we'll be using is not some random crate, but Rust's type system itself! We will not have any runtime code, instead the type checker will do all the work for us.

Implementing the Peano axioms

First let's go trough the Peano axioms. The first axiom is that "Zero is a natural number". Basically what it says is that zero exists. In order to express that in the type system, we just write:

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A TestRunner for use with the Python unit testing framework. It
generates a tabular report to show the result at a glance.

The simplest way to use this is to invoke its main method. E.g.

    import unittest
    import TestRunner

    ... define your tests ...