otter

Langue: en

Version: 261792 (debian - 07/07/09)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

otter - resolution-style theorem prover

SYNOPSIS

otter < input-file > output-file

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the otter command.

otter is a resolution-style theorem-proving program for first-order logic with equality. otter includes the inference rules binary resolution, hyperresolution, UR-resolution, and binary paramodulation. Some of its other abilities and features are conversion from first-order formulas to clauses, forward and back subsumption, factoring, weighting, answer literals, term ordering, forward and back demodulation, evaluable functions and predicates, Knuth-Bendix completion, and the hints strategy.

OPTIONS

No command-line options are accepted; all options are given in the input file.

SEE ALSO

anldp(1), formed(1), mace2(1).
Full documentation for otter is found in /usr/share/doc/otter/otter33.{html,ps.gz}.

AUTHOR

otter ws written by William McCune <otter@mcs.anl.gov>

This manual page was written by Peter Collingbourne <pcc03@doc.ic.ac.uk>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).