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magma-1518-obstruction-lean: Proposition A″ re-derives an observation of Bruno Le Floch
The write-up in magma-1518-obstruction-lean
now says where Proposition A″ comes from: its equivalence of the four single-variable
targets 47, 614, 817 and 3862 under 1518 together with left injectivity and left
surjectivity — which hold in every finite 1518-magma — re-derives
an observation of Bruno Le Floch
posted on the Lean Zulip’s Equational stream in October 2025, that in a finite 1518-magma
the squaring map and all left multiplications are bijective and the single-variable
targets are then equivalent to each other and to S S S x = x. Naming the observation
that was being re-derived is the difference between a proposition that stands on its own
and one that stands on someone else’s step.