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by tigerlily 1095 days ago
There's also "proof by picture", in which you can hastily attempt to prove or disprove something by drawing a suitable diagram in your exam booklet. You have to be darn sure of what you're doing though... ;)
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And another fun and powerful technique is "proof by intimidation" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_intimidation), in which you don't have to know what you're doing, but other people have to think you do.
Ironically when rigorous proofs were invented by the greeks, Euclids "proof by picture" was no less rigorous than modern formal logic.