On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, David Hobby wrote:
> Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
>> On 8/21/08, Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Great, now I feel old -- I checked it out of the library in college after
>>> a friend of mine had recommended it, and it was fairly new at the time.
>>> (As in, not out in paperback yet.)
>>
>> How about a limerick to cheer you up?
>>
>> ((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(1/2))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0
>>
>> (limerick by John Saxon)
>
> Mauro--
>
> Thanks, but I had to google for the answer.
> Without having seen previous examples of the
> form, I got about as far as "Twelve plus one-forty-four".
>
> ---David
I got it without help.
Then again, my grandmother used to tell me riddles in verse, that didn't
make sense unless you grouped things correctly, so my brain has been
trained to think that way. (One of the many things that make me glad I
had her as a grandmother.)
Julia
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