NAME¶

prover9 - resolution/paramodulation theorem prover

SYNOPSIS¶

prover9 [options] < input-file > output-file prover9 [options] -f input-file > output-file

DESCRIPTION¶

This manual page documents briefly the prover9 command. prover9 is an automated theorem prover for first-order and equational logic. It is a successor of the otter(1) prover. prover9 uses the inference techniques of ordered resolution and paramodulation with literal selection.

OPTIONS¶

A summary of options is included below.

-h

View a list of command-line options.

-x

Enables an experimental enhanced auto-mode. For more information consult the prover9 manual.

-p

Fully parenthesize output.

-t n

Constrain the search to last about n seconds. For UNIX-like systems, the `user CPU' time is used.

-f file

Take input from file instead of from standard input.

SEE ALSO¶

mace4(1), otter(1). On Debian systems, the manual is found in the prover9-doc package, at /usr/share/doc/prover9-doc/manual/index.html.

AUTHOR¶

prover9 was written by William McCune <mccune@cs.unm.edu> This manual page was written by Peter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).