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Re:Advice for Computer Science College Students by warwick on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @01:16AM (#1317150)
Just claim to be an intuitionist. Depending on your profs sense of humour, it's a valid answer.
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Re:Advice for Computer Science College Students by whimsy on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @04:16AM (#1317465)
Er... could you explain this?

I don't get it, I'm afraid =\

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Re:Advice for Computer Science College Students by warwick on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @04:48AM (#1317499)
It's a reference to intuitionism, a constructivist approach to math and logic. Because the law of the excluded middle is disallowed in intuitionist proofs, you can't show what the parent comment was annoyed about.
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