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6.046J/18.410J algorithms

lmtancre@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lmtancre@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Feb 9 00:54:37 1994

After showing that a hypothesis was too weak to prove what we wanted, 
and that we would need to make it stronger (making the proof more
difficult): 

"You see this alot in mathematics.  If you cannot solve a problem, make it
harder."

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