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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Simple sprite question
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Date: 19 Feb 88 14:28:11 GMT
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In article <280@brambo.UUCP> morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones) writes:
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>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.

Not likely that it came from Euclid.. it was *not* all Greek to him.
The practice may have started there (I don't have a copy of the Elements
handy in my office here...:-(), but surely "QED" didn't.
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