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
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