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The De Bruijn ratio is often 20 lines of Lean code or more for each line of informal mathematics.

Unresolved speaker · Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett · 26 Oct 2026

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“And it's very high, 20 to 1, often higher. Mathematicians don't generally see the reason to invest that additional time just to verify the correctness of something.”
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