Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 18:21:33 +1000 From: Rowdy <david@fielden.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] What's "QED"? (was Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades) Message-ID: <40C6C88D.2030609@fielden.com.au> In-Reply-To: <40C61BBF.2080008@Pandora.Be> References: <40C5BCAC.6090401@circlesquared.com> <40C5E758.5050406@circlesquared.com> <20040608123647.2cab2e91.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200406081019.30500.kstewart@owt.com> <20040608175255.GA4309@alexis.mi.celestial.com> <40C61BBF.2080008@Pandora.Be>
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Jos De Laender wrote: > Bill Campbell wrote: > <snip of on topic stuff ;-)> > >> >> >> The original Latin is ``Quod Erat Demonstrandum'', translates to that was >> demonstrated (about as much as I remember from five years of Latin). >> >> >> > Quod erat demonstrandum is correct. The translation is rather : what > needed to be proven, what needed to be demonstrated ... > (although this is probably very poor English :-) ) > > Jos I had a maths teacher in high school who said that, when used after a simple proof, it could stand for "quite easily done". Dave
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