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It doesnt look much like a limerick but there's one there

12+144+20+ 3√4

______________ +(5x11)=9² +0

7
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If any one has a font that could transpose this in a proper fashion would be nice
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Fixed, they call it. Let me try.





12+144+20+ 3√4 +(5x11) = 9² + 0

______________

7





That might be closer.
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I can only make it rhyme if I do it in Welsh.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
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Id like to post the answer but hide it from those not wanting to see it. Like a spoiler alert. How would I do that ?
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Snowfire;1478170 wrote: Id like to post the answer but hide it from those not wanting to see it. Like a spoiler alert. How would I do that ?
Can't be done, not on this forum anyway.

Here's my solution.



seithfed o

swllt yn ogystal â chwe deg y cant o £ 1

yna ychwanegwch un ac wyth a dau thruppences

ynghyd â hanner cant a phump ceiniogau (neu bedwar a saith gan y dylai gael ei alw)

Bydd bob amser yn dod i chwe swllt a ninepence.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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If when translated it goes like this then you are correct......

A dozen, a gross and a score

Plus three times the square root of four

Divided by seven

Plus five times 11

Is nine squared and not a bit more
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I was barking up the right tree then...

The seventh of a shilling as well as sixty per cent of one pound

then add one and eight and two thruppences

along with fifty five pennies (or four and seven as it should be called)

It will always come to six shillings and Ninepence.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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Snowfire;1478170 wrote: Id like to post the answer but hide it from those not wanting to see it. Like a spoiler alert. How would I do that ?


I wouldn't bother with the likes of me..........you lost me long ago.
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Let's face it, no bugger's old enough to check my arithmetic.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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