Auxiliary proposition, in math Crossword Clue
5 letters · New York Times · Monday, February 21, 2000 · 11-Down
Appeared in 1 New York Times Crossword: Monday, February 21, 2000.
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a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition
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