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Old 02-18-2003, 09:36 PM
tdiddy tdiddy is offline
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Default Re: Proof of Sklansky\'s theorem?

Just because there is a theorem, doesn't mean a proof exists

Excuse me, but by definition a theorem is proposition that can be proved from accepted premises. So, actually if there is a theorem, there must also be a proof of a theorem. If there is no known proof of the proposition, then it is called a conjecture even if it is widely believed to be true. Of course, Fermat's Last Theorem was called a theorem before it was proven, but it was actually only a conjecture until it was recently proved true.
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