I wish I could give credit where it’s due, but I don’t know who came up with this gem. I also don’t know how long it’s been around. I found it on Facebook—an unexpected and pleasant payoff for my weekly scan there to make sure I’m not “missing” something really “important.” It’s a mathematical limerick:
Maybe you can come up with the English translation on your own. But let’s assume you can’t, or don’t care to try, so we can get right to it (and not hide it in the comments). Here it is:
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.
Kinda cute, eh? It’s fun that it uses old-fashioned words for certain quantities. But here’s what floored me: it’s arithmetically correct.
