Mathematical limerick

[Clitheroekid]

I'd never seen this before, but for some strange reason found it highly enjoyable:

(12 + 144 + 20) + (3√4) + (5 x 11) = 9² + 0
..........7

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.

(With apologies to younger readers, to whom the words `gross' and `score' have quite different meanings!)

[servodude]

Great stuff!

Nerdy limericks/jokes were once a relatively common site on the interwebs
- they have become unfortunately rarer in recent years

My favourite was the meta-limerick thus:

There once was an X from place B,
Who satisfied predicate P,
The X did thing A,
In a specified way,
Resulting in circumstance C.

Have fun
- sd

[stewamax]

Square all the round numbers until 24,
Then add them together but wait for the score.
Their sum is unique in arithmetic’s lore
It’s 70 squared; never happens before.
Squaring and adding the numbers (bar 1)
Is never a square in itself to count on.

The sum of the squares of the first 24 integers is itself a square.
Except for the trivial case of 1^2, this appears to be unique!

[bungeejumper]

And to think, there was I, imagining that mathematical limericks began and ended with the legendary hexahedronical ball.

Brace yourself, it's at number seven here. http://komplexify.com/math/humor_blue/Limericks.html

They get ruder as they go along. My favourite is the last but four.

BJ

[UncleEbenezer]

Those who like a mathematical story might wish to google the most improper tale of Polly Nomial. [edit to add: https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/polly.htm looks like a bona-fide version]

Or for something more wholesome, the work of Stanisław Lem, such as https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/684800 ... here-dyads

[Rhyd6]

OOOOOOOH you are naughty but I like it

R6