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Subject: Re: [OT] What's "QED"? (was Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades)
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Bill Campbell wrote:
<snip of on topic stuff ;-)>

>
>
>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