Prove or disprove

The Endeavour 2013-05-20

Summary:

From Concrete Mathematics: Incidentally, when we’re faced with a “prove or disprove,” we’re usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we just need one counterexample); and nit-picking arouses our

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http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/05/19/prove-or-disprove/

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math

Authors:

John

Date tagged:

05/20/2013, 00:10

Date published:

05/19/2013, 13:56