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Thread #155303 Message #3653434
Posted By: MGM·Lion
24-Aug-14 - 03:10 AM
Thread Name: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick
Subject: RE: BS: Math and Poetry: A Numerical Limerick
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
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