Off-beat Math & A Short Story

12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(1/2))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 +0

If you are not gifted enough to decipher these simple codes, I will give you a clue: It is a poem!! Now, try looking at it from that angle...

...and if you are still having trouble with the poem, here you go:

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.

!! ;-)
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10**12 Microphones = 1 Megaphone
10**6 bicycles = 2 megacycles

2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds

1/2 lavatory = 1 demijohn

10**-6 fish = 1 microfiche

1 unit of suspense in a mystery novel = 1 whod unit

10 millipedes = 1 centipede

5 holocausts = 1 Pentacost

10 monologues = 5 dialogues = 1 decalogue

8 nickles = 2 paradigms
2 snake eyes = 1 paradise
2 wharves = 1 paradox

1 milli-Helen (of Troy) = amount of face that can launch one ship
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In a literature class, the students were given an assignment to write a short story involving all the important ingredients - nobility, emotion, sex, religion and mystery. One student allegedly handed in the following story:
"My god!" cried the duchess. "I'm pregnant. Who did it?"
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Thanks Venky (MP)!