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19 Aug 14 - 06:29 PM (#3652223) Subject: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Mrrzy I don't know the html for formatting math so here goes. I will use "sq" to mean the square-root-of symbol. ((12 + 144 + 20 + 3sq4)/7)+(5*11)=81+0 that is the math Here is the limerick, in English A dozen, a gross and a score Plus 3 times the square root of 4 Divided by 7 Plus 5 times 11 Is 9 squared, and not a bit more. Isn't that lovely for all parts of both sides of your brain? |
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20 Aug 14 - 04:46 AM (#3652315) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: G-Force There once was a man from Bengal Who had a math'matical ball The sum of its weight Was equal to eight Plus twice the square root of fuck all |
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20 Aug 14 - 08:58 AM (#3652353) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Airymouse Why not = (9)^2 +0? Else the last line could be Is three to the fourth, and not a bit more. |
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20 Aug 14 - 11:29 AM (#3652403) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: GUEST, topsie Airymouse - sadly, your first suggestion doesn't rhyme and your second doesn't scan (though if you changed 'and not a bit more' to 'and no more' it would fit). |
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20 Aug 14 - 12:55 PM (#3652429) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Mrrzy Ah, yes, I forgot about 9^2 for squared, so I just wrote 81. Is three to the fourth and no more would work, but that would be 3^4. |
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20 Aug 14 - 12:56 PM (#3652431) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Mrrzy I should finish reading before clicking send on what I am commenting upon. |
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20 Aug 14 - 01:31 PM (#3652443) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Mysha Hi, Well, I guess I would write that as ((12 + 144 + 20 + 3√4)/7) + (5*11)= 92 Bye ,Mysha |
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20 Aug 14 - 02:50 PM (#3652469) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Mrrzy OOh, not a bit more, even better! |
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20 Aug 14 - 03:07 PM (#3652474) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: GUEST,Triplane Juts a wee Scottish one b4 we change the currency Tuppence an'twapence a groat an' three ha'pence a penny a penny an' an odd bawbee = ? |
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20 Aug 14 - 03:14 PM (#3652478) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Mr Red ah.... sorry to be pedantic but it is Maths because there are two sides to the equation. |
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20 Aug 14 - 04:16 PM (#3652487) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Joe_F And for the advanced class: The integral z squared dz From 1 to the square root of 3 Times the cosine Of 3 pi over 9 Equals log of the cube root of e. |
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20 Aug 14 - 04:26 PM (#3652489) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Mysha Hi Triplane, A shilling's worth, I'd say. Bye Mysha |
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20 Aug 14 - 09:06 PM (#3652539) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: GUEST In French too maths are plural. And the English money system was always a mystery, how can change from 3 bob be seven-and-sixpence? or whatever. But that's not poetry... love the new limerick but don't know enough to find out if it's true! |
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20 Aug 14 - 09:07 PM (#3652540) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: GUEST,Mrr at work that was me, sorry |
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21 Aug 14 - 03:23 AM (#3652574) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: GUEST, topsie If you got 7/6 change from 3/- you're doing well. |
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21 Aug 14 - 03:32 AM (#3652575) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: MGM·Lion UK 'Maths' = US 'Math' — Just as UK 'colour' = US 'color'. Simple. Why make a thing of it? ≈M≈ |
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21 Aug 14 - 05:09 AM (#3652601) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: GUEST,Triplane Mysha u r correct 12 Pence or 1 Shillimg or even a Bob |
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21 Aug 14 - 10:38 PM (#3652830) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Joe_F Mrr: When I read that limerick in 1998, it checked, but now it doesn't. None of us is getting any younger. |
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21 Aug 14 - 10:59 PM (#3652834) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Stanron Perhaps in the colonies having more than one math might be too complicated. |
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21 Aug 14 - 11:10 PM (#3652837) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Mrrzy Well, people were getting 7-and-6 back from things that were smaller than 7 in the first place, is what I recall, and I am not at all sure where the bobs come in. Nor guineas, for that matter. Joe - yikes. And yes, having one math is bad enough! |
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22 Aug 14 - 03:06 AM (#3652860) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Musket Being mathematical about it, there are five letters in math. |
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22 Aug 14 - 12:04 PM (#3653018) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Mrrzy Three old American Indian ladies are sitting around bragging about their children; one says, see this lion skin I'm sitting on? MY son killed the lion with his bare hands to bring it to me; the second says, see this tiger skin I'm sitting on? Well, MY son killed this tiger with HIS bare hands! The third old woman isn't saying much, so they give her that look, and she finally says See this hippo skin I'm sitting on? Well, I killed this hippo myself. And that proves that the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides. (There is another one about how even adders can multiply on a log table, but I spare you the setup.) But I'll bite - is the fifth letter the s? |
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22 Aug 14 - 02:11 PM (#3653068) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: GUEST,leeneia Thanks for the limerick, Mrrzy. Last year I met a grade-school teacher who said it is very hard to get the students to learn their number facts. Maybe using rhythm and rhyme and making a game of it would help. |
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22 Aug 14 - 02:48 PM (#3653088) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Bert Exponential Blarney A A If you go to Ireland D and you have a tale to tell A They'll tell you a couple back E7 and tell 'em twice as well A For two for one's the deal me lads D The best you've ever known A For everyone in Ireland E7 A Has kissed the blarney stone Now you've got three stories You're really in a fix Tell 'em to a friend be boys and he'll come back with six Now you've got nine stories And as sure as Ireland's green Tell 'em to a neighbor And he'll tell you eighteen Now I've twenty seven stories And if I tell them to you You'll have to tell me fifty four Before this day is through If you keep telling stories As you go from door to door You'll have fifty million stories That you've never heard before |
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22 Aug 14 - 04:00 PM (#3653109) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Mysha Hi, So, are you paying this Robert for Mathematics? Bye Mysha |
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23 Aug 14 - 02:18 PM (#3653323) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Don Firth The dove returned with an olive branch, the Flood finally receded, and the ark settled at the top of Mount Ararat. Then Noah called forth all the animals. "Go forth and multiply," he called out, and the animals all walked, two by two, down the gangplank and off to repopulate the world, each pair according to its own kind. Noah was tidying up around the arc, battening down the hatches and all that, when he saw two small snakes curled up in a corner, crying. "Why are you two still here?" Noah said, "I commanded you all to go forth and multiply!" "But we can't," replied one of the snakes. "We're adders!" (Rimshot!!) Don Firth |
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24 Aug 14 - 02:16 AM (#3653422) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: DMcG Lewis Carroll of Alice fame wrote this verse in a poem Yet what use are such gaieties to me Whose head is full of indices are surfs X^2 + 7x +3 =11 2/3 I find it scans best as X squared plus seven x plus three Is equal to eleven and two thirds |
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24 Aug 14 - 02:18 AM (#3653423) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: DMcG ,argh" surds not surfs. Blooming spelling 'correction' tools! |
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24 Aug 14 - 03:10 AM (#3653434) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: MGM·Lion I find the scansion more pleasing in the version based on Carroll's original (I think it's in one of the Penguin Books of Comic & Curious Verse; or perhaps in Oscar Williams' Little Treasury of Modern Verse?) -- He was a man whose mind was full Of indices and surds X-squared plus twenty-seven x Equals eleven thirds written as x^2 + 27x = 11/3 ≈M≈ |
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24 Aug 14 - 03:18 AM (#3653437) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: DMcG Ah, but I bet you looked it up, while I typed from memory of it a decade or so ago. The old folk process at work again! *smile* Thanks for the correction |
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24 Aug 14 - 03:23 AM (#3653439) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: Amergin There is alot of math inside poetry, especially in the forms....you have the haiku, which is 5 syllables, 7, 5....and the tanka, which is 5, 7, 5, 7, 7.....and the landay 9, 13....and then you have the sonnets, usually 14-5 lines, ten syllables each, some with a rhyme scheme others without....and the sestinas, and so on. |
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24 Aug 14 - 03:23 AM (#3653440) Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick From: MGM·Lion No -- actually, I tried to look it up, but couldn't find it in any of the sources I suggest above; so it really was from memory. Didn't intend any 'correction'; just expressing a preference for the scansion of version I recalled. ☺ right back 2U ≈M≈ |