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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

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Also this, which is word related.

In what way, apart from the obvious one, is this true 11+2=12+1?


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I hope you post answer
 
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I cannot. Shu loves QI; I bet he knows.
 
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I will post an answer... just not yet. Big Grin


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I will tell you that both questions are word related rather than mathematical.


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I've now corrected a typo in it so of couyrse I expect everyone to get it easily. Big Grin


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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.


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Shu saw it too and clued me in. I never would have gotten it.
 
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Clever, isn't it?


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Quite. QI is a great show - so intellectual, and yet funny.
 
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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.

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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.


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Will anyone enlighten us plodders. I tried googling with but got no joy.
 
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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.


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