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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>
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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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