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By Bovmelo, history, 11 months ago, In English

Let me start with “note that”.

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"consider"

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"It can be shown that"

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It is obvious that

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Trust me bro

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    I literally wrote this on a blog after the most crucial claim and no one questioned it

    Thanks cf

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Let's assume

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I hate it when they use "it is easy to see that"

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    Me too.. and whenever this is written its always hard to see that

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    It feels like they're big brain & you're smol brain lmao

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We can notice that

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“bitset”

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well known trick in china!

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Hence Proved !

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It can be proved that...

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somehow "it works" :)

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Pretest Passed or Accepted in Contest

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We can achieve this by. ..

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" We don't have the strict proof, but we have faith and stress."

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The proof is left as an exercise to the reader.

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    It would be thoroughly appreciated if lazy editorials put this rather than a low-effort explanation that clears up nothing.

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Without loss of generality

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let it be

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TLE

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Well-Known Fact

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obviously

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This is a well-known fact that

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It can be shown that there is always at least one answer. I have seen it dozens of times

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I "Claim"

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"I am lgm"

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"Observation:"

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from "someoldname" 's theorem it's obvious that...

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"There are other approaches..."

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We can prove by induction that ...

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"from the following observations"

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If you actually want to prove something: "Assume that"

Once you realize that you don't know how to prove something: "It's obvious that"

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The proof is left as homework.

Source : https://codeforces.net/blog/entry/9070 (word "homework" written in tutorial of 351C + 351D)

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    And sometimes "homework" is harder than the actual problem, so we just "prove it by AC"

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"Time complexity: O( )"

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"Maximum Value among the minimums"

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It can be proven that

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We can use (smth) to optimize $$$\mathcal{O}(n^2)$$$ to $$$\mathcal{O}(n \log n)$$$ due to monge property

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(How?)

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"First of all"

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Editorial

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Let's start with a naive solution

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"We are programmers not mathematicians"

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It was revealed to me in a dream