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Steven Landsburg
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Proposition 1: For sufficiently large N, the following six quantities can be made arbitrarily small:
a) b) c) d) e) f)

Proof: The proof, which is something of a technical distraction, is deferred to the end of this section.

Theorem: [Insert great theorem here.]

Proof: [Clear intuitive proof, invoking Proposition 1.]

It remains to prove Proposition 1.

Proof of Proposition 1: [Insert long boring computations here.]

Or alternatively:

Theorem: [State theorem]

Proof: I claim that for sufficiently large N, the following six quantities can be made arbitrarily small: a),b),c),d),e),f).

Granting this claim, the proof proceeds as follows: [intuitive argument here].

It remains to prove the claim:

Proof of claim a):

Proof of claim b):

Etc.

Steven Landsburg
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