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Larry Runacres

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Oct 9, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/9/00
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What does QED stand for?

Chip Eastham

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Oct 9, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/9/00
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In article <8rt1ah$ivm$1...@lola.ctv.es>,
"Larry Runacres" <mu...@ctv.es> wrote:
> What does QED stand for?
>
>

Quod erat demonstratum (Latin for, That which was to be shown).

-- Chip


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Chip Eastham

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In article <8rt4ch$e0b$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,

Chip Eastham <chip_e...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <8rt1ah$ivm$1...@lola.ctv.es>,
> "Larry Runacres" <mu...@ctv.es> wrote:
> > What does QED stand for?
> >
> >
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> Quod erat demonstratum (Latin for, That which was to be shown).
>
> -- Chip

My bad, it should be "Quod erat demonstrandum". (Never was any good
at Latin.)

Deon Jooste

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Or with tongue in cheek .....quite easy done !
Deon
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Michael Varney

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"Chip Eastham" <chip_e...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> In article <8rt1ah$ivm$1...@lola.ctv.es>,
> "Larry Runacres" <mu...@ctv.es> wrote:
> > What does QED stand for?
> >
> >
>
> Quod erat demonstratum (Latin for, That which was to be shown).

Lets get out the shovel? :-)

QED = Quantum ElectroDynamics! :-D


Chip Eastham

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Oct 9, 2000, 8:47:53 PM10/9/00
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In article <fDsE5.851$OA2.1...@news.uswest.net>,

I'll see your photon, and raise you three quarks, Mister Mike!

:~|

(poker face)

Niklas Eliasson

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Oct 10, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/10/00
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In article <8rt1ah$ivm$1...@lola.ctv.es>,
"Larry Runacres" <mu...@ctv.es> wrote:
> What does QED stand for?
>
>

According to Jeff Miller's excellent site on mathematical history, it
seems like it was Spinoza who 1665 first used the abbreviation QED of
the latin version of Euclid's "hoper edei deiksai", that is "quod erat
demonstrandum" ("that which was to be proven").

The site I mentioned has the address

http://members.aol.com/jeff570/mathword.html


Niklas Eliasson

Kim and Jer

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Eveyone is giving a latin answer. Its real translation to english is 'The
End'

-Jer

Larry Runacres wrote in message <8rt1ah$ivm$1...@lola.ctv.es>...

Lee Crandell

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Oct 11, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/11/00
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Quid cogitas de "Quod Euclides Demonstravit?" (or- What do you think of ...)
--
Bye
Best wishes
Lee
Deon Jooste <djo...@mjvn.co.za> wrote in message
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> Or with tongue in cheek .....quite easy done !
> Deon
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