docs: more tauto docstring
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## Details
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## Details
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`tauto` *does not do magic*! It doesn't know *anything* about addition or multiplication,
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`tauto` *does not do magic*! It doesn't know *anything* about addition or multiplication,
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it doesn't even know `add_zero`. It doesn't know anything about *numbers*.
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it doesn't even know `add_zero`. The only things that `tauto` knows about numbers
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What `tauto` knows about is *logic*. I guess it does know one fact about numbers, it
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are firstly that `a = a` and secondly that `0 ≠ 1`, `0 ≠ 2`, `1 ≠ 2` and so on.
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knows that `a = a`. And that's it. But if you have a hypothesis `x < 37`
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What `tauto`'s strength is, is *logic*. If you have a hypothesis `x < 37`
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and another hypothesis `x < 37 → y = 42` and your goal is `y = 42` then `tauto` will
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and another hypothesis `x < 37 → y + z = 42` and your goal is `y + z = 42` then `tauto` will
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solve this goal, because to solve that goal you don't need to know any facts
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solve this goal, because to solve that goal you don't need to know any facts
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about numbers, all you need to know is the rules of logic.
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about inequalities or addition, all you need to know is the rules of logic.
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## Example
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## Example
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## Example
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## Example
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If you have a hypothesis `h : 0 = 1` then `tauto` will solve the goal, because
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`tauto` knows `0 ≠ 1` and this is enough to prove `False`, which implies any goal.
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## Example
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If you have a hypothesis of the form `a = 0 → a * b = 0` and your goal is `a * b ≠ 0 → a ≠ 0`, then
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If you have a hypothesis of the form `a = 0 → a * b = 0` and your goal is `a * b ≠ 0 → a ≠ 0`, then
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`tauto` will solve the goal, because the goal is logically equivalent to the hypothesis.
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`tauto` will solve the goal, because the goal is logically equivalent to the hypothesis.
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If you switch the goal and hypothesis in this example, `tauto` would solve it too.
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If you switch the goal and hypothesis in this example, `tauto` would solve it too.
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