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82 Post author: Grognor 02 February 2012 05:13AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 02 February 2012 06:15:52AM 10 points [-]

There a running joke in mathematics that saying that a statement is "obvious" means:

I know this "has to" be true, but don't feel like figuring out how to prove it.

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