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6recommend
1warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
Aug 5, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
Used forformal proof verificationformal proof systemformal math proofsformal math proof system

Why people recommend it

“Stuff like this just wouldn't happen in Metamath.”

“My favorite minimalistic example of the Metamath base language”

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“I think it's worthy of study and understanding.”

“When I first heard about metamath I was blown away at how I could drill down to the base axioms”

Caveats and dissent

“Took me about 90 seconds to find a Metamath implementation bug”

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What semantics do you use for your HOL library? I scanned around but documentation on that page is a bit sparse. The github repo goes to a random user's page, and all I could find there was this unrelated repo: https://github.com/digama0/HOL

“Metamath contributor here! Each proving tool has its pros and cons, but always happy to see Metamath noted”

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“The metamath community tends to centralize results”

“Intriguingly, Metamath handles recursive definitions by factoring out the recursion into a single higher-order function”

“Took me about 90 seconds to find a Metamath implementation bug”

“Stuff like this just wouldn't happen in Metamath.”

“My favorite minimalistic example of the Metamath base language”

“I think it's worthy of study and understanding.”

“When I first heard about metamath I was blown away at how I could drill down to the base axioms”

“I've recently been dabbling a fair bit with Metamath”

“plenty of computer-verified mathematics done in Metamath/set.mm and Isabelle/ZF”

Threads where it came up

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