What Is Proof by Casework, or Exhaustion?
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- Casework is basically what you would expect: considering all the possible cases of something and proving the given statement for all of them. This technique is especially powerf…
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- What is casework? A good detective tries to find all possible scenarios that could've happened at the scene. The detective then tests each scenario to see whether it is plausibl…
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- An 8×8×88 \times 8 \times 88×8×8 cube is painted red on 333 faces and blue on 333 faces such that no corner is surrounded by three faces of the same color. The cube is then cut …
- Within each camp, everyone coordinates to vote the same way. If everyone behaves perfectly strategically to ensure that the best candidate wins the election, who will be elected…
- In the snail park, there are two sets of four parallel paths, where the lines that are not parallel intersect each other at right angles. You want to place a snail at one endpoi…