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Want to understand ZODA? Tried to implement it and found yourself stumped?? This FAQ is just for you! Wrote some answers for questions I’ve seen around me and those I had myself, navigating details and tradeoffs If you have any more - let me know :)

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today's ridiculous bit in Julia: implementing a (simple!) formal verification mini-PL by using Julia types it can even verify that 1+1=2 from Peano axioms!

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so wait, why don't we use the fermat prime field F_{2^16+1} for small circuits? obviously smooth and easy generator (!) => multiplications via log-table are easy, conversions fit in L2 cache => can special case the 0 element, so those are free => nonzero elems fit in 16bit