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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
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Organization: Teltone Corp., Kirkland, WA
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, (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!


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