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Experiment: Qp to Rat

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Description

PR #443 replaces the frac hierarchy with a single type Qp. Since Qp is a subtype of Rat, its automation around the arithmetic tactics is worse. An alternative is to use the type Rat, and bake positivity into the validity predicate of Frac. Doing so has the potential to clean up some annoying coercion lemmas, at the cost of potentially needing to do Iris reasoning whenever the positivity of a fraction is required.

Once we have more in-depth usages of Frac we should re-evaluate to see if this is the better solution for Lean's automation suite.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing PR #443 and the current uses of Qp, Rat, and Frac. Compare how the two proposed representations affect arithmetic tactic automation, coercion lemmas, and the need for Iris reasoning around positivity. Done means producing enough usage-based evidence to decide which representation works better.

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Assessment

Domain
devtools
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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