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I Mean The Word Proof Not In The Sense Of The Lawyers, Who Set Two Half Proofs Equal To A Whole One, But In The Sense Of A Mathematician, Where Half Proof = 0, And It Is Demanded For Proof That Every Doubt Becomes Impossible.

-Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

I Mean The Word Proof Not In The Sense Of The Lawyers, Who Set Two Half Proofs Equal To A Whole One, But In The Sense Of A Mathematician, Where Half Proof = 0, And It Is Demanded For Proof That Every Doubt Becomes Impossible.

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