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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: <607@oscvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Mar-88 12:30:12 EST
References: <2933@slovax.UUCP> <3451@bnrmtv.UUCP> <604@oscvax.UUCP> <14@dm.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: jan@oscvax.UUCP (Jan Sven Trabandt)
Organization: Ontario Science Centre, Toronto
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In article <14@dm.sei.cmu.edu> ejh@sei.cmu.edu (Erik Hardy) writes:
>In article <604@oscvax.UUCP>, jan@oscvax.UUCP (Jan Sven Trabandt) writes:
>> Sorry, but it jest ain't co-rect.
>> whereas the rest of the limerick (the left-hand-side of the "equation",
>> if you will) is  0.5544...
>
>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)

All right, so I blundered. Somehow I managed to use square-root of 3
instead of cube-root of 3 as the upper-limit in the integral.

Just 'cause I'm going into 4-th year Math (well, Computer Science really)
doesn't mean I can multiply 'n' divide :-)

Can we forget about this limerick now??

Jan "Friday - It's hip, it's happening" Sven.
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