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Spooky Math Story: It Follows Trivially

October 25, 2017Original blog post

'It follows trivially,' I said, leading my friends to the proof. They stared. 'There's nothing there.' The page was empty, except for some obvious nonsense.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-10-25-the-world-s-spookiest-math-stories--spooky-math-story-it-follows-trivially/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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'It follows trivially,' I said, leading my friends to the proof. They stared. 'There's nothing there.' The page was empty, except for some obvious nonsense.

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Logic & Proof › Proofs & Theorems
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High SchoolCollege
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