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Conference rusure::math

Title:Mathematics at DEC
Moderator:RUSURE::EDP
Created:Mon Feb 03 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2083
Total number of notes:14613

536.0. "<><><> Lisped in numbers . . . <><><>" by KEEPER::KOSTAS (Kostas G. Gavrielidis &lt;o.o&gt; ) Sat Jul 12 1986 18:19

    Hello,
    
         I will reserve this note for a collection of verses of those
    who tried to work their numbers into rhymes.
    
    And I will start with the first one:
    
            <<
                And what are all these mysteries to me
    
                Whose life is full of indices and surds?
    
                             2
                            x  + 7x + 53
    
                                 11
                               = --
                                 3                               
            >>

                  
    That was from Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, author of "Euclid and his
    Modern Rivals" and of "Alice in Wonderland" 
             

    Enjoy,
    
    Kostas G.
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536.1re. .0 another one from an anonymous . . .KEEPER::KOSTASKostas G. Gavrielidis &lt;o.o&gt; Sat Jul 12 1986 18:2721
    re. .0
    
    here is another one
    
         <<
               There was an old Fellow of Trinity
    
               Who solved the square root of oo ,
    
                  But it gave him the fidgits
    
                  To count up the digits
    
               So he chucked Maths and took up Divinity.
         >>

    Enjoy,
    
    Kostas G.
536.2re. .0 a Moebius Ring discussion . . . KEEPER::KOSTASKostas G. Gavrielidis &lt;o.o&gt; Sat Jul 12 1986 18:4825
    re. .0
    
    here is another one 
    
         <<
               A mathematician confided
                  
               That a Moebius band is one-sided,
             
                  And you'll get quite a laugh
    
                  If you cut it in half
    
               For it stays in one piece when divided!
    
          >>

    
    Author unknown
    
    Enjoy,
    
    Kostas G.
536.3SHEILA::PUCKETTAn Equatorial Grasslands BestiarySun Jul 13 1986 20:526
    There was a young lady call Bright
    Who could travel faster than light.
    She went out one day,
    In a relative way,
    
    And came back the previous night.
536.4Astronomy . . .THEBUS::KOSTASKostas G. Gavrielidis &lt;o.o&gt; Tue Jul 15 1986 23:2728
    
    <<
    
       Astronomy is 1-derful

          And interesting, 2.
    
       The Ear-3-volves about the Son
    
          Which Makes a year 4 you.
    
       If-5 recalled the ba-6-et
    
          Of planet-7-ly swinging
    
       In st-8-ly rhythm, round us yet
    
          Their spheery music singing,
    
       Then, then-9-ow, you'll of-10 think
    
          How number-less the stars that blink.
    >>

    
    Unkown Author, and may be not correct.
536.5pi . . .THEBUS::KOSTASKostas G. Gavrielidis &lt;o.o&gt; Sun Jul 20 1986 21:1022
    another one
    
    <<
    
        A Maths Master, teaching at Rye,
    
        Brought his pupils a succulant pi.
    
           But we're sorry to state
    
                  3
           That  ---
                  8
    
        With  6 = 7  knows why.
    
    >>
    
    
    Enjoy,
    
    Kostas G.
536.6cat on his ninth lap ...THEBUS::KOSTASKostas G. Gavrielidis &lt;o.o&gt; Sun Jul 20 1986 21:1515
    
    <<
    
           I wonder if the cat on his ninth lap
    
        (Eight lives expected) calcuates while purring,
    
           "Eleven per cent is, roughly, what I've left;
    
        What's gone is eighty-eight-point-eight-recurring."
    
    >>