TPTP Problem File: ROB024-1.p

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% File     : ROB024-1 : TPTP v8.2.0. Released v1.0.0.
% Domain   : Robbins Algebra
% Problem  : -(a + (a + b)) + -(a + -b) = a => Boolean
% Version  : [Win90] (equality) axioms.
% English  : If there exist a and b so that -(a + (a + b)) + -(a + -b)
%            = a then the algebra is Boolean.

% Refs     : [Win90] Winker (1990), Robbins Algebra: Conditions that make a
%          : [WW+90] Wos et al. (1990), Automated Reasoning Contributes to
% Source   : [WW+90]
% Names    : RA-1 [WW+90]

% Status   : Unknown
% Rating   : 1.00 v2.0.0
% Syntax   : Number of clauses     :    5 (   5 unt;   0 nHn;   2 RR)
%            Number of literals    :    5 (   5 equ;   1 neg)
%            Maximal clause size   :    1 (   1 avg)
%            Maximal term depth    :    6 (   2 avg)
%            Number of predicates  :    1 (   0 usr;   0 prp; 2-2 aty)
%            Number of functors    :    4 (   4 usr;   2 con; 0-2 aty)
%            Number of variables   :    7 (   0 sgn)
% SPC      : CNF_UNK_RFO_PEQ_UEQ

% Comments : Commutativity, associativity, and Huntington's axiom
%            axiomatize Boolean algebra.
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%----Include axioms for Robbins algebra
include('Axioms/ROB001-0.ax').
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cnf(the_condition,hypothesis,
    negate(add(negate(add(a,add(a,b))),negate(add(a,negate(b))))) = a ).

cnf(prove_huntingtons_axiom,negated_conjecture,
    add(negate(add(a,negate(b))),negate(add(negate(a),negate(b)))) != b ).

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