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Math Poetry (2015) (3blue1brown.com)
37 points by johnqian on March 31, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Reminds me of a math limerick:

(12 + 144 + 20 + 3*sqrt(4))/7 + 5*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


Beat me to it! I have no memory of where I first heard it, but it was in my far-away long-lost youth. Despite that, I have never forgotten it, nor lost the ability to call it up instantly from my memory (unlike, for example, my wife's birthday.) it was apparently written by someone named Leigh Mercer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Mercer).

(Just kidding, honey!)


Funny, just two weeks ago I wrote this [1] just for fun (in german) and was wondering if there were other math songs/poems out there.

[1]: https://static.laszlokorte.de/infinite-impulse-rhapsodie/




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