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- noun a relativistic quantum theory of the electromagnetic interactions of photons and electrons and muons
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Now you could comment that she was on the cover of the major crossover of the time, which was due to her being prominent in Stern's Avengers, qed.
Thoughts on the New Teen Titans | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Third party contractor = messed up spreadsheets = skullduggery = Texas = something Rovian here: qed Halliburton.
According to Newsweek, "it's only fair to conclude" that the Obama campaign is not trying to flip Texas county convention delegates. Ann Althouse 2008
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Allura jekk hemm dawn il problemi mhux sinjal li f'dawn is-snin kollha ma kienx hemm managment tajjeb. jekk ic entri tas-sahha mhumiex attrezzatati ta min hu t-tort? tal-poplu jew ta minn qed imexxxi.
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Jekk hemm nuqqas ta staff ta minn hu t-tort? tal-poplu jew ta minn qed imexxi? jekk il-problema socjali tan-nies xjuh mhux ghax il gvern ma ippjanax sew.
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Taf kemm n-nursery qalet nkwiet meta tkun qed tilghab f'leagues hawn Malta u l-MFA qatt ma ghamlet xejn.
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Fix-Xlendi, Marsalforn, il-Belt Valletta, Birzebbugia u Marsaxlokk qed isir xoghol bhalissa; imma bilfors fil-peak tal-istagun turistiku kellu jsir?
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Mugliette qed imur lura ghal zmien l-anarkija, meta bniedem setgha jaghmel dak li jigi ghal idejh u jisfida bla ebda punizzjoni.
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Mela tgergru ghax hawn it toroq hziena u issa ha tgerger ghax qed isewwuhom!
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abraxaszugzwang commented on the word qed
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promply vanishes in a puff of logic.
--Douglas Adams (THGTG)
January 21, 2007
seanahan commented on the word qed
quod erat demonstrandum
January 21, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word qed
Isn't a knowledge of Latin a wonderful thing?
January 21, 2007
artoparts commented on the word qed
Q.E.D. is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase "quod erat demonstrandum" which means literally, "that which was to be demonstrated", written in its abbreviated form at the end of a mathematical proof or philosophical argument. Latin translation of the original Greek ὅπε�? ἔδει δειξαι (hoper edei deixai) which was used by many early mathematicians including Euclid and Archimedes.
October 10, 2008
prettyprey commented on the word qed
Q.E.D. = because Euclid says so.
"Yes, we can take the liberty to draw that line and make that circle, no I haven't proven it yet, but we're going to do so because I say so..."
October 12, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word qed
Absolutely not. Euclid only uses Q.E.D. when he has finished proving something. If he wants you to assume something he will use the language "Let there be a...", and pull out something either from a previous proposition, or from his definitions, postulates, and common notions.
October 12, 2009