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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=mathematics">mathematics</a>, <b><i>without loss of generality</i></b> (<b>WOLOG</b>, <b>WLOG</b> or <b>w.l.o.g.</b>; less commonly stated as <b><i>without any loss of generality</i></b> or <b><i>with no loss of generality</i></b>) is used to indicate the assumption that what follows is chosen arbitrarily, narrowing the premise to a particular case, but does not affect the validity of the <a href="page.php?w=mathematical_proof">proof</a> in general. The other cases are sufficiently similar to the one presented that proving</p><p>
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