Path: utzoo!lsuc!ncrcan!brambo!morgan
From: morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Simple sprite question
Message-ID: <280@brambo.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 18:46:26 GMT
References: <880@isrnix.UUCP> <41157@sun.uucp> <788@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU> <41378@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones)
Organization: Bramalea Software Inc., Bramalea, Ont.
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In article <41378@sun.uucp> fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
>QED = (latin) Quod Erat Demonstrandum.  Literally "which was to be
>demonstrated or proved".  Commonly used in math (or logic and
>philosophy, I suppose) to indicate that a proof is being taken as
>having been previously derived in full, or demonstrated, by someone
>else.

QED comes from Euclid (Geometry, yuk!), who after the last line of his
proofs, which were restatements of the problem, said "which was to be
shown".  At least that's how I heard it.
>	seh

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