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quod erat demonstrandum
[ kwawd e-raht dey-mawn-strahn-doom; English kwod er-uht dem-uhn-stran-duhm ]
- which was to be shown or demonstrated.
quod erat demonstrandum
/ ˈkwɒd ˈɛræt ˌdɛmənˈstrændʊm /
(no translation)
- (at the conclusion of a proof, esp of a theorem in Euclidean geometry) which was to be proved QED
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So, never mind what such persons say, my sweetest, because they know nothing at all—quod erat demonstrandum.
Their death is merely the quod erat demonstrandum of a mathematical and mechanical proposition.
Quod erat demonstrandum—if one may be permitted to apply scholastic formulae to the science of manners.
It did at first, but inside of a week I wrote the Quod erat demonstrandum on it.
Therefore men were originally fish, quod erat demonstrandum.
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