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On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 18:01:01 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> This contrasts with your typical math text book, which starts out with a
> few pages of trivial statements before making the jump to the edge of
> the universe, cued by that magical phrase "It is obvious that..."

Don't I know that phrase all too well...  It reminds me of my high school 
algebra teacher. "You skip steps and don't show your work. Usually you get 
the right answer but if you don't I have no idea where you went wrong." 

I'll admit I still don't have much patience for videos where someone 
spends five minutes shuffling stuff around the equals sign, multiplying or 
dividing here and there. Some things are kind of obvious.