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Banks exist since a long time before computers existed, and thus have ways to detect and correct errors that are not purely technological (such as double entry bookkeeping, backups, supporting documentation, different processes). So a bank can survive a db doing nasty things on a low enough frequency such that is not detected beforehand, so they don’t need to “prove in coq” that everything is correct.


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