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Radio
01-22-2016, 08:59 PM
If pronounced in plain English, this algebraic equation makes a poem.
A limerick, actually.
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Have at it ya'll!
Wade, if you claim to be a Southerner, you've just gotta learn where the apostrophe goes in y'all.
As for the riddle -- darn -- beats me.
Radio
01-23-2016, 07:03 AM
It begins...
"A dozen, a gross and a score... "
Radio
01-23-2016, 10:22 PM
"Plus three times the square root of four..." :whistle:
the next two lines of the limerick are obvious, come on guys...
ke0me
01-23-2016, 10:38 PM
my brain hurts too much, I'm out of RAM.
Humph. It's arithmetic, not algebra.
I originally got the "a dozen, a gross and a score" but the rest evaded me until Wade showed how to read the rest of the denominator. The equation is incorrect anyway,
Radio
01-24-2016, 04:32 PM
Humph. It's arithmetic, not algebra.
I originally got the "a dozen, a gross and a score" but the rest evaded me until Wade showed how to read the rest of the denominator. The equation is incorrect anyway,
Nope, the math is right.
The square root of 4 is 2, so 3 x 2 is 6.
So 12 + 144 + 20 + 6 = 182
182 / 7 = 26 and then 5 x 11 = 55
26 + 55 = 81 = 9 x 9 :idea:
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So the 2 short lines of the limerick read... come on guys...
That's what I get for doing it in my head.
I had to do something in my head -- there's little else going on in there nowadays.
Radio
01-24-2016, 05:24 PM
I shall taunt you once again...
"A dozen, a gross and a score,
Plus three times the square root of four"
...
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and I'll tell you the rest tomorrow just before bed. Which for me is pretty early
Oh, I already know the rest.
Radio
01-25-2016, 07:19 PM
A dozen, a gross, and a score
Plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
Plus five times eleven
Is nine squared and not a bit more.
And then there is...
The meter the math and the rhyme,
So perfect it's almost a crime,
Your poetic equation,
Proves my declaration,
With numbers you're better than I'm.
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