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It depends on the scope of the proof. It's sloppy to say "this is proved to be correct". They should say "this is proved to be terminate with output X in a finite time, for input values in the range -Y:Y".

Everything can be proved to be "correct", for some definition of "correct" (i.e. "output undefined, program may not terminate").



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