Major Section: INTRODUCTION-TO-THE-THEOREM-PROVER
Start in a fresh ACL2, either by restarting your ACL2 image from scratch or
executing :ubt! 1.
Define the following functions and use The Method to prove the theorem at the bottom:
(defun rev (x)
(if (endp x)
nil
(append (rev (cdr x)) (list (car x)))))
(defun dupsp (x) ; does x contain duplicate elements?
(if (endp x)
nil
(if (member (car x) (cdr x))
t
(dupsp (cdr x)))))
(defthm dupsp-rev
(equal (dupsp (rev x)) (dupsp x)))
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