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Limericks
- $\dfrac {12 + 144 + 20 + 3 \sqrt 4} 7 + \paren {5 \times 11} = 9^2 + 0$
- A dozen, a gross, and a score
- Plus three times the square root of four
- Divided by seven
- Plus five times eleven
- Is nine squared and not a bit more.
- -- Leigh Mercer
- My cat, mathematically-trained,
- Says "Your topology's too coarse-grained,
- Quantum mechanics
- Sends you into blind panics
- Because you're not well-enough brained."
- $3,465,653,671.475613$
- Three thousand, four hundred and sixty
- Five million, six hundred and fifty
- Three thousand, six hun-
- Dred and seventy one
- Point four seven five six one three
- -- Unknown attribution
- $\ds \int \limits_1^{\sqrt [3] 3} z^2 \rd z \times \cos \dfrac {3 \pi} 9 = \map \ln {\sqrt [3] e}$
- Integral zee squared dee zee
- From one to the cube root of three
- Times the cosine
- Of three pi over nine
- Is the log of the cube root of e
- -- Unknown attribution
- I met a logician from Spain
- And showed him a proof about chains
- Not one to dawdle
- He built me a model
- A disproof that did cause me pain
- -- Unknown attribution
- There was a young fellow named Fisk
- A swordsman, exceedingly brisk
- So fast was his action
- The Lorentz contraction
- Reduced his longsword to a disk
- -- Unknown attribution