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DefinitionDefinition: AI-adaptedProof: Not applicableaudited 2026-08-01
How statement and proof provenance work

The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.

  • Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
  • AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
  • AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.

These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.

Axis-parallel rectangles in Rm and their volume

Definition

Fix a natural number m≥1. For a,b∈Rm with aj≤bj for j<m, define [a,b]:={x∈Rm:aj≤xj≤bj (j<m)},vol⁡[a,b]:=∏j<m(bj−aj). The product is the recursively defined finite product of Finite sums and finite products, by recursion. The rectangle is nondegenerate when every aj<bj, and it is a cube when all side lengths are equal.

Every factor is nonnegative, so volume is nonnegative. For a coordinate index r<m, cutting at c∈[ar,br] gives two rectangles whose volumes add to the original, by distributivity in that factor and Laws of finite sums and finite products. Under the standard identification R1≅R (Rn as the set of functions n→R, and d1, d2, d∞ are metrics on it, The p-norms ∥x∥p for rational p≥1, and ∥x∥∞), this is the interval [a0,b0] and its length.

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