Quod erat demonstrandum. --TL
Literally, "that which was to be demonstrated"; used to mark a proposition which has been proven, and whose proof was the object of the exercise.
That's Latin. Latin and logic. <shudder>
"Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong, with authority." --WJR
Also a TV documentary series, if anyone remembers that... it included, for some reason, the image of a falling apple in its titles. --TL
At least one lecturer I can't think of calls it Quite Easily Done. -- ARC
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