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The weird thing is, the longer one does mathematics, the more you start to agree with sentences like the last one.
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@debasishg Anecdote from my university days. A professor writes down a theorem, then looks up to the auditorium and says "My notes say 'proof: simple'. Let's see whether that's right." Half an hour and a few dead ends later: "The notes were right." 😅