Literary Digest
Here’s a poem that was published by Adam C Orn in The Literary Digest of Chicago in 1906:
“Now I – even I – would celebrate,
In rhymes unapt the great,
Immortal Syracusan rivalled nevermore,
Who in his wondrous lore,
Passed on before,
Left men his guidance,
How to circles mensurate!”
What on earth does it mean?
“Now I – even I – would celebrate,
In rhymes unapt the great,
Immortal Syracusan rivalled nevermore,
Who in his wondrous lore,
Passed on before,
Left men his guidance,
How to circles mensurate!”
What on earth does it mean?
Labels: thinktank
posted by ToM at
8:49 PM
12 Comments:
1 count the letters,
2 record the number
Pi to 30 places
It's supposed to be Pi to 30 places. Unfortunately Tom hasn't used spell-check. "Rivaled" only has one "l" :)
... i.e. Tom copied the mnemonic incorrectly. Should be:
3.141592653589 7 93238462643383279
Probably because in English "rivalled" is correct. I believe that in America you may spell it with only one l but you shouldn't assume your version of English is correct. There's a reason why the language is called English and not American.
I am English. The correct spelling in both the US and the UK is "rivaled". I checked, via Google, before posting.
On the other hand "traveled" in the US and "travelled" in the UK. Go figure:)
Aaaargghh! I was bias(s)ed by Google not offering "rivalled" on auto-complete. It seems that "rivalled" is accepted in some dictionaries. Crazy world ;)
...anyway, the point is that "rivalled" breaks the mnemonic.
Sorry, I should have said that "rivaled" seems to be the "preferred" (rather than "correct") spelling in my 6:13 PM post above.
i agree it only works as a mnemonic if it's spelt rivaled. since i maintain that that spelling is ugly (notwithstanding it's being acceptable), seems to me the only solution is to amend pi :)
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Hi Mister Fahrenheit. I agree, pi is wrong :) and "rivalled" looks nicer to me as well. I probably wouldn't have noticed, but I just had to check the mnemonic realy (ho ho) worked.
Now all that is required is a mnemonic for the poem ;)
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