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Presburger Arithmetic

Presburger arithmetic apparently proves its own consistency. Does anyone have a reference to an exposition of this? It's not clear to me how to encode the statement "Presburger arithmetic is ...
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Computable nonstandard models for weak systems of arithmetic

By Tennenbaum's theorem, PA itself does not have any computable nonstandard models. The integer polynomials which are 0 or have a positive leading coefficient form a computable nonstandard model of ...
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