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Even super simple results like uniqueness of prime factorisation can pages of foundational mathematics to formalise rigorously. The Principia Mathematica famously takes entire chapters to talk about natural numbers (although it's not ZFC, to be fair). For that reason I think it's pretty unlikely.


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