Member posted November 21, 2015 03:03
Just saw this on QI and had to share.
Can you turn this onto a limerick?
((12 + 144 + 20) + 3*SQR(4))/ 7 + (5*11)= 9*9 + 0
This message has been edited. Last edited by: BobHale , November 21, 2015 23:08 "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
Member Also this, which is word related.
In what way, apart from the obvious one, is this true 11+2=12+1?
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
<Proofreader> posted November 21, 2015 18:05
I hope you post answer
Member I cannot. Shu loves QI; I bet he knows.
Member I will post an answer... just not yet.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
Member I will tell you that both questions are word related rather than mathematical.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
Member I've now corrected a typo in it so of couyrse I expect everyone to get it easily.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
Member I saw the first one on
QI as well. If you need a clue to the second question, try writing the sum out in words.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Member Shu saw it too and clued me in. I never would have gotten it.
Member Clever, isn't it?
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
Member Quite. QI is a great show - so intellectual, and yet funny.
Member Apparently Adam Jacot de Boinod was a researcher for QI before he wrote
The Meaning of Tingo . That might explain why I don't like the show: it's not entirely accurate.
This message has been edited. Last edited by: goofy , November 24, 2015 17:46
Member It knows that though. It's primarily an entertainment show not an educational one. In fact they once did a whole episode correcting things they had got wrong on earlier episodes or which had been believed to be true at the time of broadcast but since been changed.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
Member A dozen, a gross and a score
Plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
Plus five times eleven
Equals nine squared and not a bit more
And the second one is that eleven plus two is an anagram of twelve plus one.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.