David,

Thanks for the reference to the text you are working from, it makes it much clearer what you are trying to do.

In example 9.2 I think he should stipulate 0 < r < 1 not just r not= 1.

I think strictly speaking if you work with real numbers you are not doing discrete maths, but I don't know how much that matters to you. ( /"Discrete mathematics/is the study of/mathematical/structures that are countable or otherwise distinct and separable."
This seems the most popular definition.)

However, the examples in 9.2 don't require real numbers, since he is only dealing with finite sums, not taking limits, so the numbers here could be the rational numbers ℚ, and the induction is over the natural numbers. How about working in theory "ℚ"? (that's still discrete by the above criterion).

As to utf8, it is likely that the next release of ProofPower will work with utf8, and in the interim there is a ProofPower contrib which contains programs for converting between ProofPower ext character set and utf8.

I can't see anywhere that pputf8 can be downloaded, so you might have to clone the github depository at:

https://github.com/RobArthan/pp-contrib

Then look for build instructions in src/pputf8.

Alternatively, look here for Rob's previous advice:

http://lemma-one.com/pipermail/proofpower_lemma-one.com/2016-August/002345.html

Roger

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