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    ACL2-pc::prove

    (primitive) call the ACL2 theorem prover to prove the current goal

    Examples:
    prove -- attempt to prove the current goal
    (prove :otf-flg t
           :hints (("Subgoal 2" :by foo) ("Subgoal 1" :use bar)))
          -- attempt to prove the current goal, with the indicated hints
             and with OTF-FLG set
    
    General Form:
    (prove &rest rest-args)

    Attempt to prove the current goal, where rest-args is as in the keyword arguments to defthm except that only :hints and :otf-flg are allowed. The command succeeds exactly when the corresponding defthm would succeed, except that it is all right for some goals to be given ``bye''s. Each goal given a ``bye'' will be turned into a new subgoal. (See hints for an explanation of :by hints.)

    Remark: Use (= t) instead if you are not at the top of the conclusion. Also note that if there are any hypotheses in the current goal, then what is actually attempted is a proof of (implies hyps conc), where hyps is the conjunction of the top-level hypotheses and conc is the goal's conclusion.

    Remark: It is allowed to use abbreviations in the hints.