At 04:56 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
>On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Dave Land wrote: > > > On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: > > > >> 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". > >>> > > > > I was having a hard time rhyming "twenty" with "square root of four" > > until I realized that 12, 144, and 20 have special names... > >I can't forget that they have special names. > >I mean, any time we have 144 of something, either my husband or myself >says to the other, "That's gross." > > Julia And when you have 288 . . . . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
