Editing Strings

{{comic
	| number    = 5833
	| date      = November 11, 2020
	| title     = strings
	| image     = 1605112809-20201111.png
	| votey     = 160511289720201111after.png
	| titletext = I think God permitted infinities just to permit stupid proofs.
}}
==Explanation==
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==Transcript==
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:The proof of riemann's hypothesis is trivial.
:I don't have the solution - that's busywork. I'm just saying the solution is trivial.
:Oh.? Then write it down and claim your fields medal.
:Think about the space of all possible proofs. There are infinite proofs, all of which are just strings of little squiggles. It follows
:That for any given proof, there is some other proof that is both longer and has more complicated squiggles.
:Since "triviality" is always a relative quality, you can make a proof trivial just by locating a harder one among the infinite options. Thus, we have shown that all proofs are trivial, including this one.
:That seems non-obvious.
:Actually everything is obvious.
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==Votey Transcript==
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:The one downside is that the answer is approximately infinity characters in length.
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