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Posted on: September 6, 2006 8:30 PM, by Janet D. Stemwedel
A real nerd can combine love of math and poetry, like so:
{(12+144+20+3(4)^0.5)/7}+5(11) = 81 + 0
It's a true equation. And, it's a limerick. Read it out loud and you'll see:
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.
(Actually, since it's not dirty, this might not officially qualify as a limerick.)
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Comments
How about this other one (an old one, but still my fav):
\int_(1)^(3(1/3))(z^2 dz) cos(3pi/9) = ln (e^(1/3))
The integral of z square dz
from one to the cube root of three
times the cosine
of three pi over nine
equals log of the cube root of e.
:-)
Posted by: Emily | September 6, 2006 9:29 PM
It's not dirty, but it is gross; so it surely qualifies. ;-)
Posted by: chezjake | September 6, 2006 9:52 PM
We'll promise not to sue, if you promise to never, ever, do this again ...
Posted by: Scott Simmons | September 6, 2006 11:45 PM
The integral of z square dz
from one to the cube root of three
times the cosine
of three pi over nine
equals log of the cube root of e.
Plus a constant.
Posted by: Chad Orzel | September 7, 2006 6:33 AM
OH...MY...GOD
Posted by: beajerry | September 7, 2006 12:46 PM
Plus a constant.
Nope -- it's a definite integral ;-)
Posted by: Emily | September 7, 2006 3:44 PM
Huh?
Madame DeFarge
Posted by: Madame | September 9, 2006 7:05 PM
Oh, it officially qualifies as a limerick, no question. Check out the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick form (its acronym gives rise to the oedilf-dot-com url. You ought to figure out what word your lim could define and submit it. :oD
Here are some more math lims, just to give you an idea (no, I'm not the author -- at least, not of these :oP ):
The relation where p exceeds b
Implies b's never greater than p
(Unlike j = k,
Which means k = j),
So it's antisymmetric, you see.
Using step-by-step math operations,
It performs with exact calculations.
An algorithm's job
Is to work out a "prob"
With repeated precise computations.
And of course, they do try to sneak a little humor in:
If a matrix derives all its actors
From its parent's square matrix cofactors,
It's an adjoint. This knowledge
Was useful in college;
When dating, such facts are detractors.
And this one... well, I tip my hat to the guy who came up with it:
Now I note a verse rendering pi,
Within which the words strictly high-
light, adeptly encrypted,
How to get scripted
This number in digits. Just try!
(Author's Note: This verse can be decrypted to give the value of π to 24 decimal places. Simply count the number of letters in each word and you will get 3.141592653589793238462643.)
... I love limericks. I've contributed upwards of 30 to the aforementioned "Limerictionary" myself, but I'm not posting any of them here. (Some of them are geeky, but not math-related. :oP)
Posted by: geekwraith | September 10, 2006 2:21 AM
2 Biolimerix
by
Jonathan Vos Post
Some creatures attempt the invisible
we find the chameleon risible
one spots one at times
the way imperfect rhymes
in a poem stand out individual
Though the shell of a poem be bony
the sea-otter, he takes a stone, he
floats to dinner, dressed furrily,
cracks it open, then thoroughly,
eats the meat of the sweet abalone.
0300-0450
19 Nov 1978
Posted by: Jonathan Vos Post | March 4, 2007 3:35 PM