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• proof by obfuscation: A long plotless sequence of true and/or meaningless syntactically related statements.
  proof by wishful citation: The author cites the negation, converse, or generalization of a theorem from the literature to support his claims....
• proof by accumulated evidence: Long and diligent search has not revealed a counterexample.
  proof by cosmology: The negation of the proposition is unimaginable or meaningless....
• proof by picture: A more convincing form of proof by example.
  Combines well with proof by omission. proof by vehement assertio...
• proof by forward reference: Reference is usually to a forthcoming paper of the author, which is often not as forthcoming as at first.
  proof by semantic shift: Some of the standard but inconvenient definitions are changed for the statement of the result....
• NP- /N-P/ pref. Extremely. Used to modify adjectives describing a level or quality of difficulty
  he connotation is often `more so than it should be' This is generalized from the computer-science terms `NP-hard' and `NP-complete'...
• 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...
• proof by cumbersome notation: Best done with access to at least four alphabets and special symbols.
  proof by exhaustion: An issue or two of a journal devoted to your proof is useful....
• NP-: /N-P/ pref. Extremely. Used to modify adjectives describing a level or quality of difficulty
  he connotation is often `more so than it should be' (NP-complete problems all seem to be very hard, but so far no one has found a good a priori reason that they should be....
• An example is not proof.