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From: ejh@sei.cmu.edu (Erik Hardy)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Do You Have an Interesting Formula?
Message-ID: <14@dm.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 88 18:25:09 GMT
References: <2933@slovax.UUCP> <3451@bnrmtv.UUCP> <604@oscvax.UUCP>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University (Software Engineering Institute), Pgh, PA
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Summary: what are you talking about?

In article <604@oscvax.UUCP>, jan@oscvax.UUCP (Jan Sven Trabandt) writes:
> 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!
> Jan "so where's the party?" Sven.

let's see...

integral of t^2 dt = t^3/3 from 1 to 3^(1/3) = 2/3 (with me so far?)
cos(3*PI/9) = cos(PI/3) = 1/2, so the left side is 1/3. we already know the
right side is 1/3, so

what am i missing here?

doc (erik@sei.cmu.edu)

yaccity yacc (don't awk back)