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Re: memorable quote (or joke) related to math...

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Subject: Re: memorable quote (or joke) related to math...
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 by: Eric Sosman - Sat, 16 Jul 2022 20:10 UTC

On 7/16/2022 1:44 PM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:
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> pls share a memorable quote (or joke) related to math...

Yet what are all such gaieties to me,
whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
x^2 + 7x + 53
= 11/3

-- Lewis Carroll

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Subject: Re: memorable quote (or joke) related to math...
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 by: Richard Heathfield - Sat, 16 Jul 2022 20:48 UTC

On 16/07/2022 9:10 pm, Eric Sosman wrote:
> On 7/16/2022 1:44 PM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> pls share a memorable quote (or joke) related to math...
>
> Yet what are all such gaieties to me,
> whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
> x^2 + 7x + 53
> = 11/3
>
> -- Lewis Carroll
>

Start with nothing and take half of it away,
Then take half, take half, take half,
Take half, take half, take half, take half;

Now three by twenty-nine
And then by a hundred and three
And by one over ten
And again and again
And again and again
All together multiply
And add two threes,
And now at last
multiply by eye,

Whether you add or take is moot;
You will have a complex root.

--
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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 by: G - Sun, 17 Jul 2022 12:39 UTC

Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> wrote:
> On 7/16/2022 1:44 PM, henh...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> pls share a memorable quote (or joke) related to math...
>
> Yet what are all such gaieties to me,
> whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
> x^2 + 7x + 53
> = 11/3
>
> -- Lewis Carroll
>

(12+144+20+3sqrt(4))/7 +5(11)=9^2

A dozen, a gross, plus 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).

G

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 by: Eric Sosman - Sun, 17 Jul 2022 14:46 UTC

On 7/17/2022 8:39 AM, G wrote:
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> (12+144+20+3sqrt(4))/7 +5(11)=9^2

Appending "+0" might make a small improvement ...

> A dozen, a gross, plus 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).

.... by justifying the parenthesized phrase.

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Look on my code, ye Hackers, and guffaw!

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 by: Richard Tobin - Sun, 17 Jul 2022 14:47 UTC

In article <jjie77Fk7n8U1@mid.individual.net>, G <g@nowhere.invalid> wrote:

>(12+144+20+3sqrt(4))/7 +5(11)=9^2
>
>A dozen, a gross, plus 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).

For "not a bit more" you should add "+0" to the equation.

-- Richard

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