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Not really. The words are used in closely analogous ways. But the "hypothesis" in "continuum hypothesis" is part of the name of the continuum hypothesis, carried over from a time when we didn't know the answer.

Names are just names. Euclid's Algorithm is an algorithm. The Division Algorithm is a theorem.




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