“There was a young fellow from Trinity,
Who took the square root of infinity.”
One, Two, Three... Infinity (1947)
Context: There was a young fellow from Trinity,
Who took the square root of infinity.
But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets;
He dropped Math and took up Divinity.
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