Hi Helen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
> Sent: Sunday, 7 November 2004 1:32 PM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [firebird-support] SP Creation
>
>
> At 08:22 PM 6/11/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
> > >
> > > Quod erat demonstrandum.
> > >
> > > ./heLen
> >
> >Excellent! err...what does it mean :)
>
> Literally, "Shown that which was to have been shown" (abbreviated to
> "Q.E.D", used in formal proofs of geometry theorems, a topic that was
> still
> being taught in the 60th decade of the last century, when I was in the
> Third Form.)

You memory for Geometry & (Latin) seems good, shame about the arithmetic!
(Which base are you using to allow more than 10 decades in a century ?) :)

Regards

Ken Galbraith

>
> ./hb
>