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From: jan@oscvax.UUCP (Jan Sven Trabandt)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Do You Have an Interesting Formula?
Message-ID: <604@oscvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Mar-88 17:26:35 EST
References: <2933@slovax.UUCP> <3451@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Reply-To: jan@oscvax.UUCP (Jan Sven Trabandt)
Organization: Ontario Science Centre, Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <3451@bnrmtv.UUCP> hawkins@bnrmtv.UUCP (Peter Hawkins) writes:
>In article <2933@slovax.UUCP>, kathode@slovax.UUCP (Kathy Lau) writes:
>> Limerick by Bruce Miller:
>> 
>> The integral of t squared dt,
>> From one to the cube root of three,
>> When times the cosine
>> Of three pi over nine
>> Is the log of the cube root of e.
>
>I have a freind who *loves* math believe it or not.  He would really get off
>on thisi little limerick if the equation is really true.
>It's been a while since I had my calculus, so can someone out there
>who can remember (or just loves math as much as my friend) let me know if this
>is actually correct.


Sorry, but it jest ain't co-rect.
The log of the cube root of e is 0.3333...  (taking "log" to be the
					     natural logarithm)
			      or 0.14476... (using log base 10)

whereas the rest of the limerick (the left-hand-side of the "equation",
if you will) is  0.5544...

So there!

Ob Joke:
A few months ago I was at a restaurant with a friend and the hostess
actually fell for the "Mike Hunt" ploy. There was a bit of a wait,
and when a table was free for "Mike's" party, the hostess announced it
over the p.a. and you guessed it, they were no longer around.
I thought it was funny that she fell for it, even though it is an
old joke.

Jan "so where's the party?" Sven.
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-"No."
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Jan  (Jan, from Amsterdam) no-hyphen Sven  Trabandt
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