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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."

-- Matt Westwood

$3,465,653,671.475613$

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

$\ds \int \limits_{0 + 0}^{\sqrt {\frac \pi 4} } \paren {\sqrt v}^2 \map \cos {v^2} \rd v = \dfrac 3 4 \dfrac {\sqrt 2} 3$

Integral root squared of v

Times the cosine of v squared dv

Between zero, no more

And root pi over four

Is three quarters root two over three

-- 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