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At CADE-10 Ross Overbeek proposed a two-part contest to stimulate and reward work in automated theorem proving. The first part consists of seven theorems to be proved with resolution, and the second part of equational theorems. Our theorem proversOtter and its parallel childRoo proved all of the resolution theorems and half of the equational theorems. This paper represents a family of entries in the contest.
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Lusk, E.L., McCune, W.W. Uniform strategies: The CADE-11 theorem proving contest. J Autom Reasoning 11, 317–331 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00881871
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