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An example is not proof.
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proof by picture: A more convincing form of proof by example.
Combines well with proof by omission. proof by vehement assertio...
proof by example: The author gives only the case n = 2 and suggests that it contains most of the ideas of the general proof.
proof by intimidation: 'Trivial'. proof by vigorous handwaving...
drool-proof paper n. Documentation that has been obsessively dumbed dow
o the point where only a cretin could bear to read it, is said to have succumbed to the `drool-proof paper syndrome' or to have been `written on drool-proof paper'....
drool-proof paper: n. Documentation that has been obsessively {dumbed down}
o the point where only a {cretin} could bear to read it, is said to have succumbed to the `drool-proof paper syndrome' or to have been `written on drool-proof paper'....
Lack of proof <> proof of lack.
A mathematician is showing a new proof he came up with to a large group of peers.
After he's gone through most of it, one of the mathematicians says "Wait!...
I said "fool-proof, NOT stupid-proof
The proof is left to the student as a pudding.
The exercise is proof of the student.