A Mathematician’s Limerick
Posted in Personal Stuff by John E. Pannell on January 4th, 2007 at 3:19 am For those mathematically inclined, here’s a little limerick:
((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(0.5))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0
I’ll send a lodge 70 flap to the first person* that posts, as a comment, the correct translation of this into plain English. Who will dare show their true “geekiness” by posting the answer?
It really isn’t that difficult. Remember, it’s a limerick.
For those clever enough to try to “cheat”, the poem has been slightly changed to thwart attempts to find the answer on Google or Yahoo!.
* Sorry, “Brother Bob” is not eligible since I already told him the translation…
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Oh, DARN!I was SO hoping to add an S-1 Tsoiotsi to my collection
Ah, but I never said it would be an S1.
I can guarantee it won’t be.
A dozen, a gross, and a score,
Plus three times the square root of four,
Divided by seven,
Plus five times eleven,
Equals nine squared and not a bit more.
E to the X, TY, TX, E to the X, TX
Secant, tangent, co-sign, sign
3.14159
Cube roots, square roots, quotients, brackets -
DISINTEGRATE ‘EM, YELLOW JACKETS!!!
This would be, “the Engineer’s cheer,” from Georgia Tech, ca.1985-86, when my best friend (fellow Eagle Scout & Itibap! :-)) was a freshman at Tech, & I went down a couple times to Atlanta to perform with the Ramblin’ Wreck at football games. Which of course, begs the question - where the FREEP was this cheer when they NEEDED it; in the ACC title game & Gator Bowl?!??! Ouch…
Bob McCanless
Pittsburgh
It should be dy/dx not TY, TX and dx instead of TX. Your memory shows you’re not an engineer.
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