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What sets mathematicians apart is caring whether something holds in 100 percent of cases, when 99.99 percent is good enough for everyone else.

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  1. Terence Tao

    Mathematician at UCLA, Fields Medal 2006

    If something holds 99.99% of the time, that's good enough for most things. But mathematicians are one of the few people who really care about whether really 100% of all situations are covered by it.

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