Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utcsri!drz From: drz@utcsri.UUCP (Jerry Zarycky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Simple sprite question Message-ID: <5945@utcsri.UUCP> Date: 10 Feb 88 00:06:29 GMT Article-I.D.: utcsri.5945 Posted: Tue Feb 9 19:06:29 1988 References: <880@isrnix.UUCP> <41157@sun.uucp> <788@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU> Reply-To: drz@utcsri.UUCP (Jerry Zarycky) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 20 Summary: In article <788@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU> cs178abu@sdcc8.ucsd.edu.UUCP (John Schultz) writes: > > QED is a latin acronym for "There it is" or "It is shown". Maybe >it expands out to "Quotas Epluribus Donum"... > > John Actually, as a former Latin student!... Q.E.D. stands for "Quod erat demonstrandum" or literally, "That which was to be proven" (Gee, I hope I remembered the Latin correctly, it's been so long; in any case, the translation is reasonably accurate) Jerry Zarycky Usenet: {cornell, uw-beaver, linus, ihnp4, allegra, decvax, floyd} !utcsri!drz CSNET: drz@csri.toronto.edu UUCP: drz@utcsri.uucp EAN: drz@csri.toronto.cdn