Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!west From: west@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: Induction help, please? Message-ID: <28200045@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 7-Oct-84 19:35:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.28200045 Posted: Sun Oct 7 19:35:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Oct-84 03:37:33 EDT References: <5264@yale.UUCP> Lines: 6 Nf-ID: #R:yale:-526400:uiucdcs:28200045:000:280 Nf-From: uiucdcs!west Oct 7 18:35:00 1984 Step 2 mentioned in the previous response is poorly expressed. The induction step of an induction proof proves that the hypothesis holds at a given value under the assumption that it holds for all values of the parameter between there and the values considered in the basis step.