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# {{alternative form of|en|QED|t=''initialism of'' '''[[quod erat demonstrandum]]'''}}
# {{alternative form of|en|QED|t=''initialism of'' '''[[quod erat demonstrandum]]'''}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Benjamin Donn|authorlink=Benjamin Donn|chapter=An Essay on Plane Geometry|title=The Geometrician: Containing Essays on Plane Geometry, and Trigonometry:{{nb...|With the Application to the Solutions of a Variety of Problems, with are of Great Use in Measuring Heights and Distances of Places, Surveying of Counties, Sea-coasts, &c.}}|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=Sold by [[w:Joseph Johnson (publisher)|J[oseph] Johnson]],{{nb...|in St. Paul’s Church-Yard.}}|year=1775|section=paragraph 59|section=book I (The Introduction)|page=10|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=gKk2AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA10|oclc=23635601|passage={{smallcaps|Theorem 2}}. ''The Angles'' <math>B</math>, <math>C</math>, ''at the Baſe of an Iſoceles Triangle'' <math>ABC</math>'', are equal to each other; and a Line'' <math>AD</math> ''biſecting the Angle'' <math>BAC</math>, ''divides the Baſe into two equal Parts, and is perpendicular thereto.'' For becauſe the Line <math>AD</math> biſects the <math>\angle A</math>, that is, makes the <math>\angle BAD = \angle CAD</math>, and Side <math>AB</math> is <math>= AC</math>, and <math>AD</math> common to both, the <math>\triangle ABD = \triangle ACD</math>; <math>\angle B = \angle C</math>, and <math>\angle ADB = \angle ADC</math>; <math>\because AD \perp</math> to <math>BC</math>. '''Q. E. D.'''}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=William Dunham|authorlink=William Dunham (mathematician)|chapter=Euler and Analytic Number Theory|title=[[w:Leonhard Euler|Euler]]: The Master of Us All|series=The Dolciani Mathematical Expositions|seriesvolume=22|location=[Washington, D.C.]|publisher={{w|Mathematical Association of America}}|year=1999|page=64|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=x7p4tCPPuXoC&pg=PA64|isbn=978-0-88385-328-3|passage=By Cases 1 and 2, we see that any finite collection of <math>4k - 1</math> primes cannot contain all such primes. Thus there are infinitely many primes of this type. '''Q.E.D.'''}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=William Dunham|authorlink=William Dunham (mathematician)|chapter=Euler and Analytic Number Theory|title=[[w:Leonhard Euler|Euler]]: The Master of Us All|series=The Dolciani Mathematical Expositions|seriesvolume=22|location=[Washington, D.C.]|publisher={{w|Mathematical Association of America}}|year=1999|page=64|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=x7p4tCPPuXoC&pg=PA64|isbn=978-0-88385-328-3|passage=By Cases 1 and 2, we see that any finite collection of <math>4k - 1</math> primes cannot contain all such primes. Thus there are infinitely many primes of this type. '''Q.E.D.'''}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Daniel Waterland|authorlink=Daniel Waterland|chapter=A Second Defence of Some Queries Relating to Dr. Clarke’s Scheme of the Holy Trinity: In Answer to the Country Clergyman’s Reply|title=The Works of the Rev. Daniel Waterland, D.D.{{nb...|formerly Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Canon of Windsor, and Archdeacon of Middlesex; now First Collected and Arranged. To which is Prefixed, A Review of the Authors Life and Writings, by William van Mildert, D.D. Lord Bishop of Llandaff.}}|location=Oxford, Oxfordshire|publisher=At the [[w:Oxford University Press|Clarendon Press]]|year=1823|volume=III|section=query III|page=165|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=D4YNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA165|oclc=957692334|passage=[I]f the Son [of God] be in ''nature'' equal to the Father, he is also equal in ''Godhead'', which is a word expressing ''nature''; and if equal in ''Godhead'', equally God ''supreme''. '''Q. E. D.'''}}


===Noun===
===Noun===
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# {{alternative form of|en|QED|t=some [[fact]] or [[scenario]] that [[prove]]s an [[argument]] or [[proposition]]}}
# {{alternative form of|en|QED|t=some [[fact]] or [[scenario]] that [[prove]]s an [[argument]] or [[proposition]]}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=G. D. Yeats|title=Account of Ann Fooks’s Case of Ischuria and Vomiting of Urine|editors=Samuel Fothergill and John Want|journal=The Medical and Physical Journal|location=London|publisher=Published for the proprietors, by J. Adlard,{{nb...|23, Bartholomew-Close, and 39, Duke-Street, Smithfield}}; and sold by J. Souter,{{nb...|No. 1, Paternoster-Row.}}|month=February|year=1814|volume=XXXI, part 2|issue=180|page=122|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=HRAUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA122|oclc=1051228262|passage=This was exactly the '''Q. E. D.''' of the paper.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=“Anglicanus” [pseudonym]|chapter=Letter III|title=View of the Character, Position, and Prospects, of the Edinburgh Bible Society. In Seven Letters|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Printed for Brown & Wardlaw,{{nb...|16 St Andrew Street}}; and sold by M. Ogle,{{nb...|W. Collins, and Wardlaw & Co. Glasgow; and James Duncan, J. Hatchard & Son, and B. J. Holdsworth, London.}}|year=1827|page=24|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=VN4HAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA24|oclc=1062258796|passage=Whoever starts a doubt as to the validity of any of those allegations to which he has set his '''Q. E. D.''' is indicted as a disturber of the peace.}}


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See also: QED

English

Phrase

(deprecated template usage) Q.E.D.

  1. Alternative form of QED (initialism of quod erat demonstrandum)
    • 1999, William Dunham, “Euler and Analytic Number Theory”, in Euler: The Master of Us All (The Dolciani Mathematical Expositions; 22), [Washington, D.C.]: Mathematical Association of America, →ISBN, page 64:
      By Cases 1 and 2, we see that any finite collection of primes cannot contain all such primes. Thus there are infinitely many primes of this type. Q.E.D.

Noun

Q.E.D.

  1. Alternative form of QED (some fact or scenario that proves an argument or proposition)

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