Re: Has the UK gone mad?

In article <tsL+8ON6YedIFwVw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "\"@ @\""@user-
unknown.mx2.org.uk says...
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.


Where did you stick that and what translations did you apply?
The first Google hit for multibabel gave me a site called tashian.com
(!!!) which gave amusing results but not the one you got.
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