Subject: Re: QED
From: CoolMath2@aol.com
Date: Thu Mar 23 2000 - 23:26:04 EST
In a message dated 3/23/00 4:56:48 PM Pacific Standard Time, bret@iag.net
writes:
<< We have a teacher you uses "Whoop. There it is!" as the "literal"
translation for QED.
I remember when I was in college (man, what a memory - but I digress) that a
prof explained to us the QED meant "quite easily done." So, anytime we
proved a particularly difficult theorem, we would end it with NSQED. (Not
so.....) >>
Q = quit
E = end
D = done
Karen
Coolmath.com
Orange Coast College
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