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 not a bit more.

Argo,

Please help me.

For me, the solution on the left side of the equation doesn't = 81.

2Pi is easier = 6.28 etc.

PS: I still remember George Washington's birthday: the square root of 3 = 1.732/1732.

Jolly

Pi is not easy. As a teenager we memorized it out to 32 places - can't remember why....here it is simplified to 15:
3.14159265359

Use parentheses in the last 2 terms on the left (5 x11). Then it equals 81.

OK, I get it:

{(12 + 144 + 20) + 3(2)}/7 + 5 X 11 =

(176 + 6)/7 + 5 X 11 =

(182/7) + 5 X 11 =

26 + (5 X 11) =

26 + 55 =

81

I was expecting “There once was a man from Nantucket “...

Best,
Ted

It doesn’t require parentheses. You always do multiplication or division before addition or subtraction. Unless the addition / subtraction part of the problem is it’s self contained in parentheses then those parts are calculated first.

This is Miller we’re talking about here Ted. I would’ve thought something more like this.

There once was a man from Tennessee
Who believed that the Bible didn’t prohibit slavery.
No matter how many of us were shocked, no matter how facocked,
Nor how much he was nudged, he never budged,
From what he thought what was In the scripture,
notwithstanding that a lot of us had a completely different picture.

Don’t quit your day job. Your poetry sucks worse than your politics.

Best,
Ted

Everyone’s a critic...

Some a little more than others. Some a lot more.

Ted, I was going to suggest that someone suspend his poetic license.

Re pi: Iowa State University used to put on a big student-run celebration in the spring called Vieshea. Was a long-standing tradition; excuse for a multi-day party. Finally cancelled when the students got a bit too frisky.

Anyhow, it was tradition for the math majors to compute pi out to hundreds of places and run around the outside of their building with the very long sheet of paper.

You guys party like it’s 1999, Larry.

Best,
Ted

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Pass the beer bong, Lonny.

I was saddened to learn of Miller's passing & the thread was already closed when I did, but Joe Woods & some others spoke for me, sentiment wise. I valued his presence here. And the metrics of any math regarding his absence leaves us diminished.

Timely, if you even have seen the Matt Damon/Ben Affleck/Robin Williams movie: "Good Will Hunting"--RWTF