# Square root of i ? (and another math kweshun) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 26, 2004, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-root-of-i-and-another-math-kweshun/231262 "2004-02-26T08:23:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-root-of-i-and-another-math-kweshun/231262/61 "2004-09-09T11:49:34Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > (snip masterful poetry) [Philistine] Hey! ‘Euler’ doesn’t rhyme with ‘crueler’! [/Philistine] 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gahudh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Gahudh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gahudh)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-root-of-i-and-another-math-kweshun/231262/62 "2004-09-09T12:42:47Z")
Just out of curiosity, what jobs do you people have? Are they all maths professorships or similar, because I understood maybe 10% of this at a stretch… ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-root-of-i-and-another-math-kweshun/231262/63 "2004-09-09T13:13:33Z")
Bear in mind that this thread is more than six months old, and that some people may no longer be around to answer you. FWIW, I can identify some professional mathematicians, one geologist, some electrical engineers, and some post-grad physics students (who may have graduated by now for all I know). ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-root-of-i-and-another-math-kweshun/231262/64 "2004-09-09T13:15:55Z")
That wasn’t meant to be an exhaustive list, BTW. There are some I can’t identify. ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-root-of-i-and-another-math-kweshun/231262/65 "2004-09-09T17:59:18Z")
[QUOTE=SCSimmonsHey! ‘Euler’ doesn’t rhyme with ‘crueler’! [/QUOTE] Yahand, “boot on” doesn’t with “Newton” Bryan should give math a second chance, poetry is a jungle ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-root-of-i-and-another-math-kweshun/231262/66 "2004-09-09T18:17:58Z")
Yeesh, critics. I’d like to see _you_ come up with a rhyme for “isosceles”. ---
**Author:** ![Mathochist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@Mathochist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathochist)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-root-of-i-and-another-math-kweshun/231262/67 "2004-09-09T19:25:59Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Yeesh, critics. I’d like to see _you_ come up with a rhyme for “isosceles”. (a) fall back to monosyllable rhyme. /eez/ is can be rhymed with ease. (b) don’t end a rhymed line with “isosceles”. You had options. Critics: game on. ---
**Author:** ![Mathochist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@Mathochist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathochist)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-root-of-i-and-another-math-kweshun/231262/68 "2004-09-09T19:26:21Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Yeesh, critics. I’d like to see _you_ come up with a rhyme for “isosceles”. (a) fall back to monosyllable rhyme. /eez/ can be rhymed with ease. (b) don’t end a rhymed line with “isosceles”. You had options. Critics: game on. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-root-of-i-and-another-math-kweshun/231262/69 "2004-09-09T22:23:12Z")
> [@Mathochist](#): > > (a) fall back to monosyllable rhyme. /eez/ can be rhymed with ease. > (b) don’t end a rhymed line with “isosceles”. > > You had options. Critics: game on. The critics have spoken, I see they’re not jokin’, They’re claiming that I really ain’t the Wit. I’d challenge their slander, And answer with candor, I can’t because this sadly ain’t the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-root-of-i-and-another-math-kweshun/231262/70 "2004-09-10T02:48:26Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Yeesh, critics. I’d like to see _you_ come up with a rhyme for “isosceles”. Said Pericles, “It’s isosceles.” In the Celebes, they’re all isosceles. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-root-of-i-and-another-math-kweshun/231262/71 "2004-09-10T02:55:26Z")
Said the old master orator Pericles, To the triangle from out of the Clelebes, Your angles are bent, You are not heaven sent, You’re only a shoddy isoceles. ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-root-of-i-and-another-math-kweshun/231262/72 "2004-09-10T11:59:13Z")
Isosceles: Two angles With equal degrees. Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Pekinese, Burmese, Cantonese, Isosceles. Squeeze my cheese, isosceles. Appease my disease with antifreeze? Hercules, Socrates, Diogenes, Iscosceles. On **Eker** ’s epitaph, (In parentheses): “Couldn’t rhyme with isosceles”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/square-root-of-i-and-another-math-kweshun/231262.md?page=3)