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30 May 2005: I'm behind with my entries again, typing this one 2 June. I think I'll just post one of my earlier mathemaku, "Mathemaku No. 8":
I was thinking at some point while driving during my recent trip that my poems do require specialized knowledge--here, of elementary algebra (as well, of course, of reading). I tend to forget that this is probably a minority knowledge. Even some who have had algebra probably no longer can read equations like the one above. The most accessible poems are those that can be fully experienced auditorily, and consist of simple words conventionally arranged. I've done a few, I guess, but I hope for a fairly sophisticated audience, one starting at the level of PBS-listeners, I guess.
There is a decimal point in my poem, by the way, and an infinitely-repeating decimal fraction. . . .
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