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I am a programmer moving up to computer science and even in my past life as a mechanical engineer I used sufficient maths to get by but I have always wondered what exactly is this thing called rigor.

Please make me understand it.

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    In engineering you are taught to *use* buckets, in rigorous math you are taught how to make buckets *which don't leak*.2012-07-13
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigour#Mathematical_rigour2012-07-13

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