A Conversation for Proof by Induction
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Mr Tea Started conversation Oct 10, 2000
The way I heard it is more like this:
If you can show a formula works for the value 1, and then show if it works for a variable m that it also works for m+1, then it must work for all positive integers. This is because you can take m to be 1, so it must work for 2. Then if you take m to be 2, it must work for 3 etc.
So, basically, if you want to prove a formula works for all positive integers, that is what you do.
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