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MATH.12:6 - Bias-Annotation

A familiar proof can make its witness look obvious to an author while leaving a reader without the expression that produces it. Starting at the witness-introducing step exposes that omission.

A second bias is to treat logical existence, a computable selection and an efficient implementation as one result. The branch and function cases make their different requirements visible through changed inputs and repeated work.