[OT] What's "QED"? (was Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades)

[Rowdy]

Jos De Laender wrote:

> Bill Campbell wrote:
> <snip of on topic stuff ;-)>
> 
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>> The original Latin is ``Quod Erat Demonstrandum'', translates to that was
>> demonstrated (about as much as I remember from five years of Latin).
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> 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