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RangerM
>> When they solve Fermats last theorem, call me.
Are theorems solved, or proven not to be false?
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05/24/2010 7:42:34 PM PDT
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Gene Eric
(Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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Gene Eric
I think that increasing numbers of proofs over the past couple of centuries have relied on
reductio ad absurdum.
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05/24/2010 9:02:32 PM PDT
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Erasmus
(Looks like we're between a lithic outcropping and a region of low compressibility.)
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