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(** dec. Some utilities for proving decidability of predicates.  @author Olga Caprotti and Martijn Oostdijk @version $Revision$ *)
(** Checks that all nats before n are P *)
Fixpoint allbefore (P : nat -> Prop) (n : nat) {struct n} : Prop :=
match n with
| O => True
| S x => allbefore P x /\ P x
end.
(** Checks that some nat before n is P *)
Fixpoint exbefore (P : nat -> Prop) (n : nat) {struct n} : Prop :=
match n with
| O => False
| S x => exbefore P x \/ P x
end.
(** some decidable relations on nat *)

Lemma ledec : forall n m : nat, n <= m \/ ~ n <= m.