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The good ol' "this proof is trivial so we'll skip it" move.


Oh man. The variant I see so infuriatingly often at the moment is “It is clear that these form a Lie algebra/finite abelian group/Hilbert space/bijective map/<whatever other thing that is long-winded or complex to prove> and I encourage the reader to satisfy themselves that this is the case”.


He should have really used the good ol' QED instead, lol




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