User:Andrewa/Alder's Corollary

Never take offence at what could just be a mistake.

This is a corollary to Hanlon's Law, with appeal as well to the Golden Rule, life's bitter lessons, and just plain commonsense. And I have a truly marvellous proof of this, which the margins of Wikipedia are too narrow to contain. [1]

I think it's mine, but then there is nothing new under the sun. [2]

Notes and references

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  1. ^ See Fermat's Last Theorem#Fermat's conjecture if this doesn't make you smile
  2. ^ Vic Dudman, in many, many lectures and quite a few marker's comments on assignments and even some exams, all unpublished AFAIK