Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!nonh From: nonh@utzoo.UUCP (Chris Robertson) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Math Limerick -- Different solution Message-ID: <4183@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 19:18:23 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4183 Posted: Mon Aug 6 19:18:23 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Aug-84 19:18:23 EDT Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 17 Here is a somewhat different solution to the mathematical limerick: ___ 12 + 144 + 20 + 3 \/ 4 + 5(11) = 9 x 9 + 0 ------------------------ 7 Twelve and its square, I was taught, With twenty, and three root four, ought, If by seven you divide And then place by their side Five elevens, to give nine nines plus nought. (The scanning is a touch rough in the last line, but ya gotta admit, it's different...) --Chris