A limerick is a little poem with an aabba rhyme scheme [the first, second, and f

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A limerick is a little poem with an aabba rhyme scheme [the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth rhyme with each other], which usually has nine syllables in each of the first, second, and fifth lines, and six syllables in each of the third and fourth lines. Limericks are traditionally humorous and in English the language is frequently mangled a bit to make things work. Here is a well-known (in some circles :-) example that touches on physics: There was a young lady named Bright, Who traveled much faster than light. She started one day In the relative way, And returned on the previous night. It is not entirely clear who wrote this one: it has been variously credited to Anonymous, Helen Barton Tuttle, and A. H. Reginald Fuller.

A rather uncommon subtype of the limerick is the equation limerick, in which the limerick describes an equation. Here is a simple example:

(12 + 144 + 20 + 3 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 a not a bit more! Posted to sci.math by Ralph Ray Craig in 1992

Your task, should you choose to accept it is to: 1. Write an original equation limerick. The equation must be correct! [10]

Explanation / Answer

A triangle with sides a, b, c

With an angle of 90 degrees

Opposite to side b

Then the result will be

The square root of b square minus a square is c.

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