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?

I hope you post answer

I cannot. Shu loves QI; I bet he knows.

I will post an answer... just not yet.

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

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

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.

Shu saw it too and clued me in. I never would have gotten it.

Clever, isn't it?

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

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.

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

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.