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+Copyright (c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+Released under Apache 2.0 license as described in the file LICENSE.
+
+Module: data.examples.uncountable
+Author: Leonardo de Moura
+
+Small example showing that (nat → nat) is not countable.
+-/
+import data.countable
+open nat countable option
+
+section
+hypothesis nat_nat_countable : countable (nat → nat)
+
+private definition unpickle_fun (n : nat) : option (nat → nat) :=
+@unpickle (nat → nat) nat_nat_countable n
+
+private definition pickle_fun (f : nat → nat) : nat :=
+@pickle (nat → nat) nat_nat_countable f
+
+private lemma picklek_fun : ∀ f : nat → nat, unpickle_fun (pickle_fun f) = some f :=
+λ f, !picklek
+
+private definition f (n : nat) : nat :=
+match unpickle_fun n with
+| some g := succ (g n)
+| none   := 0
+end
+
+private definition v : nat := pickle_fun f
+
+private lemma f_eq : succ (f v) = f v :=
+begin
+  change (succ (f v) =
+          match unpickle_fun (pickle_fun f) with
+          | some g := succ (g v)
+          | none   := 0
+          end),
+  rewrite picklek_fun
+end
+end
+
+theorem not_countable_nat_arrow_nat : (countable (nat → nat)) → false :=
+assume h, absurd (f_eq h) succ.ne_self