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From: bill@videovax.Tek.COM (William K. McFadden)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Do You Have an Interesting Formula?
Message-ID: <4912@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 88 21:46:36 GMT
References: <2933@slovax.UUCP> <3451@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@videovax.Tek.COM (William K. McFadden)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
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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.
>
>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.

Ok, but you'll probably get a flood of reponses from everybody else, too.


      __
     /  \ 3 ** (1/3)
    |                                                   ?
     \    t**2 dt                   *   cos( 3*pi/9 )   =   ln[ e ** (1/3) ]
       \
        |
    \__/  1

     _              _
    |                | 3 ** (1/3)
    | (1/3) * (T**3) |              *   cos( pi/3 )     =   1/3 * ln( e )
    |_              _| 1


    1/3 * [3 - 1]                   *   1/2             =   1/3

    2/3                             *   1/2             =   1/3

                                        1/3             =   1/3


Yes, it's correct.
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