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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:09:44 -0500
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On 2/9/2011 4:40 PM, Shark8 wrote:
> What induction *CAN* do is tell you whether or not SumTo
> is correctly constructed and that, barring exceptions, is
> what guarantees the return-value to be correct.
>
> IE It is a proof of correctness; not per se a returner of values.

Oh. OK, then. But I need to know what my SumTo function is going to
do with a given value of N. I'm trying to reason about the behavior
of my code here, not abstract math.