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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.nat.power
+Authors: Leonardo de Moura
+
+Power
+-/
+import data.nat.basic data.nat.div
+
+namespace nat
+
+definition pow : nat → nat → nat
+| a  0        := 1
+| a  (succ b) := a * pow a b
+
+theorem pow_zero (a : nat) : pow a 0 = 1 :=
+rfl
+
+theorem pow_succ (a b : nat) : pow a (succ b) = a * pow a b :=
+rfl
+
+theorem one_pow : ∀ (a : nat), pow 1 a = 1
+| 0        := rfl
+| (succ a) := by rewrite [pow_succ, one_pow]
+
+theorem pow_one : ∀ {a : nat}, a ≠ 0 → pow a 1 = a
+| 0        h := absurd rfl h
+| (succ a) h := by rewrite [pow_succ, pow_zero, mul_one]
+
+theorem zero_pow : ∀ {a : nat}, a ≠ 0 → pow 0 a = 0
+| 0        h := absurd rfl h
+| (succ a) h := by rewrite [pow_succ, zero_mul]
+
+theorem pow_add : ∀ (a b c : nat), pow a (b + c) = pow a b * pow a c
+| a b 0        := by rewrite [add_zero, pow_zero, mul_one]
+| a b (succ c) := by rewrite [add_succ, *pow_succ, pow_add a b c, mul.left_comm]
+
+theorem mul_self_eq_pow_2 (a : nat) : a * a = pow a 2 :=
+show a * a = pow a (succ (succ zero)), from
+by rewrite [*pow_succ, *pow_zero, mul_one]
+
+theorem pow_cancel_left : ∀ {a b c : nat}, a > 1 → pow a b = pow a c → b = c
+| a 0        0        h₁ h₂ := rfl
+| a (succ b) 0        h₁ h₂ :=
+  assert aeq1 : a = 1, by rewrite [pow_succ at h₂, pow_zero at h₂]; exact (eq_one_of_mul_eq_one_right h₂),
+  assert h₁   : 1 < 1, by rewrite [aeq1 at h₁]; exact h₁,
+  absurd h₁ !lt.irrefl
+| a 0        (succ c) h₁ h₂ :=
+  assert aeq1 : a = 1, by rewrite [pow_succ at h₂, pow_zero at h₂]; exact (eq_one_of_mul_eq_one_right (eq.symm h₂)),
+  assert h₁   : 1 < 1, by rewrite [aeq1 at h₁]; exact h₁,
+  absurd h₁ !lt.irrefl
+| a (succ b) (succ c) h₁ h₂ :=
+  assert ane0 : a ≠ 0, from assume aeq0, by rewrite [aeq0 at h₁]; exact (absurd h₁ dec_trivial),
+  assert beqc : pow a b = pow a c, by rewrite [*pow_succ at h₂]; exact (mul_cancel_left_of_ne_zero ane0 h₂),
+  by rewrite [pow_cancel_left h₁ beqc]
+
+theorem pow_div_cancel : ∀ {a b : nat}, a ≠ 0 → pow a (succ b) div a = pow a b
+| a 0        h := by rewrite [pow_succ, pow_zero, mul_one, div_self (pos_of_ne_zero h)]
+| a (succ b) h := by rewrite [pow_succ, mul_div_cancel_left _ (pos_of_ne_zero h)]
+end nat