This question came out of this other [MO question of mine](https://mathoverflow.net/questions/136236/prospects-for-reverse-mathematics-in-homotopy-type-theory). My question is



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I am sure people have thought of this, but I couldn't find a resource.


Also, I imagine there could be a lot of caveats. I don't know much about Bishop-style constuctivism, but I gather the community doesn't like formal theories or models, which are generally needed for such comparisons. However, I know others are interested in such things, and I believe there are formalizations of $\mathsf{BISH}$ that at least get close to the intuitive idea.


Also, this question can be answered without formal theories:



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> Is there a theorem known to be constructively provable (in the informal style of Bishop), that is not provable in $\mathsf{RCA}\_0$ (or $\mathsf{RCA}\_0$ plus full induction)?
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Strength of Bishop style constructive mathematics vs $\mathsf{RCA}_0$
BISH famously includes the full axiom of choice scheme (in the functional language of second-order arithmetic), which is utterly weak in that context but very strong when combined with the law of the excluded middle. This is precisely the context in which Bishop wrote that the axiom of choice follows from "the very meaning of existence". 


Thus there are formulas of second-order arithmetic provable in BISH that are not even provable in $Z\_2$, the system of clasical second-order arithmetic with full induction and comprehension. 


