Partial Correctness of a Fibonacci Algorithm

Abstract

Summary In this paper we introduce some notions to facilitate formulating and proving properties of iterative algorithms encoded in nominative data language [19] in the Mizar system [3], [1]. It is tested on verification of the partial correctness of an algorithm computing n-th Fibonacci number: i := 0 s := 0 b := 1 c := 0 while (i <> n)   c := s   s := b   b := c + s   i := i + 1 return s This paper continues verification of algorithms [10], [13], [12] written in terms of simple-named complex-valued nominative data [6], [8], [17], [11], [14], [15]. The validity of the algorithm is presented in terms of semantic Floyd-Hoare triples over such data [9]. Proofs of the correctness are based on an inference system for an extended Floyd-Hoare logic [2], [4] with partial pre- and post-conditions [16], [18], [7], [5].