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We all long for Q.E.D.

This is a ridiculously long post.

Julie R. Neidlinger
Mar 07, 2022
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From my high school senior math (not geometry) notebook.

Q.E.D. = quod erat demonstrandum (“that which was to be demonstrated”)

A few years after college, while working the night shift at a postal processing facility, a former co-worker came to me and asked if I’d help her son pass geometry.

“He’s failing and he’ll be ineligible,” she told me. “The teacher…

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