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Structural Induction - UMD

Structural induction is a proof methodology similar to mathematical induction, only instead of working in the domain of positive integers (N) it works in the domain of such recursively de ned structures! It is terri cally useful for proving properties of such structures. Its structure is sometimes \looser" than that of mathematical induction.

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