Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site teldata.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac From: tac@teldata.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: The numeric limerick Message-ID: <462@teldata.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Aug-84 17:22:12 EDT Article-I.D.: teldata.462 Posted: Wed Aug 1 17:22:12 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Aug-84 00:37:50 EDT References: <1219@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <15@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: Teltone Corp., Kirkland, WA Lines: 31 , (sop to the blank line eaters--consider it a religious sacrifice) >> > ___ >> > 12 + 144 + 20 + 3 V 4 2 >> > ---------------------- + 5(11) = 9 + 0 >> > 7 >> > >> >> A dozen, a gross and a score, >> Plus three times the square root of four, >> Divided by seven, >> Plus five times eleven, >> Equals nine squared plus zero, no more! >> >> I thought of ending it with "...I'm sure!", but that didn't fit the rhyme >> exactly. Thanks for writing the " + 0" in the equation, or I never would >> have got it! >> - Dave Maxey (alias tbm) >> {seismo,mcnc,brl-bmd,allegra}!rlgvax!dave I think it would read with a triffle more difficulty, but certainly with greater accuracy if the last line read: Equals nine times nine and no more! From the Soapbox of Tom Condon {...!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac} A Limerick A Day Is Good For The Soul.