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Limericks
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Naraku
Draconarius
Translation:
A dozen, a gross and a score
Plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
Plus five time eleven
Equals nine square and not a bit more.
(I've seen this one before, but I had to look it up to make sure I got it right)
I don't know if Galileo would have gotten this, but Descartes might have.
Praefectus Praetorio
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Good Job!
old slave
FELIS RESPICIENS
Well done, I just couldn't 'see' the ending.
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One celebrating the high point of Mathematical Philosophy (yes, you literary types, there is such a thing) in the 20th century.
If you want to research, google
Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell
and Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
If you don't want to slog through the higher math, a good illustration of Gödel's work is the liar's paradox "this sentence is a lie." Which cannot be either true of false.
If you want to research, google
Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell
and Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
If you don't want to slog through the higher math, a good illustration of Gödel's work is the liar's paradox "this sentence is a lie." Which cannot be either true of false.
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Praefectus Praetorio
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If all this higher math is too much on a poetry(?) thread,
One of the problems from Barbara's last geometry test:
One of the problems from Barbara's last geometry test:
Praefectus Praetorio
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Before I am banished forever from this thread, one last number
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Sort of Irish for St Paddy
windar
Teller of Tales
Banished? I don't know, but butt sore has a p=1
While we're on philosophy,
Said the maid, "You must marry me, Hume!"
This made the philosopher fume,
"To that I object:
For any effect
A cause you cannot assume!"
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There is no absolute truth, and this is it.
Russell also came up with the irritating observation that
the set of all possible sets that are not members of themselves
both must be and can't be a member of itself.
Praefectus Praetorio
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A man is the only Barber in a town. He shaves all the men who don't shave themselves, and only those men. Who shaves the Barber?
Or the Berry paradox, a self-referential paradox arising from an expression like "The smallest positive integer not definable in under sixty letters" (a phrase with fifty-seven letters). Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry (1867–1928), a junior librarian at Oxford's Bodleian library.
more important, does he get to shave the women?
Praefectus Praetorio
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If he doesn't, I'll be glad to denude ya gash!more important, does he get to shave the women?
windar
Teller of Tales
He goes out of town for a shave...Or he grows a beard....
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If he grows a beard, he doesn't shave himself, so he must shave himselfHe goes out of town for a shave...Or he grows a beard....
If he goes elsewhere for a shave, he doesn't shave himself, so he must shave himself
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