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A Baked Treat
(Thing 1)
I, at the start, am old
Many centuries I've been told
Used by the Greeks
For counting techniques
After things were bought and sold
Later is when I became known
As an infinite figure, when shown
You've counted my spaces
Over two billion places
And still, my amount is unknown
(Thing 2)
I, too, am not young
I'm almost as old as Thing 1
I'm just a frog
On the natural log
But I can make counting fun
(Thing 1 and Thing 2)
When you combine us two
In the order of Thing 1 and Thing 2
We'll be a baked treat
That's painful to beat
Whether cherry, peach, or aloo
I, at the start, am old
Many centuries I've been told
Used by the Greeks
For counting techniques
After things were bought and sold
Later is when I became known
As an infinite figure, when shown
You've counted my spaces
Over two billion places
And still, my amount is unknown
(Thing 2)
I, too, am not young
I'm almost as old as Thing 1
I'm just a frog
On the natural log
But I can make counting fun
(Thing 1 and Thing 2)
When you combine us two
In the order of Thing 1 and Thing 2
We'll be a baked treat
That's painful to beat
Whether cherry, peach, or aloo
Answer
Thing 1 is "Pi."Thing 2 is "e," the base of the natural logarithm.
Thing 1 and 2 are, together, "Pie."
(an aloo pie is a potato pie)
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May 01, 2006
At first I thought "thing 1" was an abacus! Then I realised it wasn't when I looked at the ending, which was a giveaway. still fun to do
Good one. I missed the 'e', in both college and now, but I sure would enjoy some sweet potato pi...but only if its round.
Got me thinkin!!! Good one!
Nice job, Spookboy. Good riddle for a math weenie (like me).
wow...i got it....nice1mrspookboy....ilovepi(e)!!!!
lol...Thing 1 and Thing 2.The Cat in The Hat!
i knew there was pie in it somehere. . . .
great teaser! i loved it!
great teaser! i loved it!
as american as baseball and chevy,,,good old ibm pie,,er,,,uh,, i mean apple pie
nice teaser
nice teaser
thats a good one.i got pie
i got the first one easy
but then the second we haven't covered yet, so i didnt get thing 2 or 3
but then the second we haven't covered yet, so i didnt get thing 2 or 3
I got the first one and the third one...but I thought that it was "pie" something b/c I thought it was a play on words.
I kept saying to myself "the first is pi, the last is pie, what's the middle one?"
It would be good to be clever!
It would be good to be clever!
Nice, but easy. I barely glanced over it and knew the answer was pie. I'm also suddenly very hungry.
Loved the teaser. Got the answer but I don't get the "frog"? Que?
Excellent!
Pretty easy, but absolutely clever. Well done!
BU TAI NAN
I also started off thinking abacus. Agree I don't understand the frog part, can someone explain that part please? Enjoyed it and understood the rest after a couple of reads.
Very good.
I think the frog was a device for him to give the "natural log" clue, or else I don't know...
That was really good, spook! I didn't get "e", didn't exactly have that in my memory banks, but now it's there. But it was very well written! Thanks!
That was really good, spook! I didn't get "e", didn't exactly have that in my memory banks, but now it's there. But it was very well written! Thanks!
The frog on the log is a clue. It emphasizes the insignificance of the letter 'e' in the word 'pie'. Just like you probably wouldn't notice a frog sitting on a log, you dont pay attention to the letter 'e' at the end of 'pie' because it is silent. 'E' is also just one of 26 letters of the alphabet, all o which are equally important to the English language.
My goodness, I am such a geek, but I can't help it - I'm an English teacher!!
Great teaser and well written (and I got it too) !!
My goodness, I am such a geek, but I can't help it - I'm an English teacher!!
Great teaser and well written (and I got it too) !!
coundn't get thing two, but got pi. Well written. Great
Thank you
at first i thought thing 1 was an abacous
WW - S, S clever!!!
Well written teaser, even I got it from the poem.
Does any1 here knws wat aloo means except me
wah! u made me think, i never get the answer i thought its a cake,, tough one baby!
I loved the poem...which led me nowhere...no pi, no e. But....still loved the poem.
I got thing 1, but I have no idea how thing 2 is solved. Cute teaser.
Oh yeah, I got them combined too. Hmmm...
Now that was a great riddle! Like many, I only got 1/2 of it.
At first I thought abacus too, then i realized the right answer!! SAND! and it works with part 1 and 2 cuz you can make a SANDwich. So by process of elimination the answer to 2 is Witch.
Oh my goodness...EXCELLENT TEASER! Two thumbs up! VERY clever.
Just GREAT....make me use my "brain"....took awhile...but even I got it...
ok.....couldnt #1 be infinity? and wat the heck did e have to do w/ a frog on a log?
very clever...even though I got it right off. Nice one!
Good thinker! Pi was the easy part.
Good teaser
I've heard of aloo as the word for potato in Indian cookery but not an aloo pie. Mmmmmmmm - where's the takeaway menu?
I've heard of aloo as the word for potato in Indian cookery but not an aloo pie. Mmmmmmmm - where's the takeaway menu?
Well I guess this one proved that math is not my forte . But after reading the poem and the answer I really have to admire how well written and thought out this teaser was. For those of you who found it so easy, WOW I must have missed the ship when I was supposed to do the three R's. Spooky this was awesome! Even if I didn't get it.
That was a pretty good riddle i have to give thumbs up on this one!!!
Good one. It rattled my brain.
Good one!! I liked the "pi"/"pie" pun, especially.
I got pi but I didn't understand why you needed the second part; I was happy with the pun by itself. In the cobwebs of my memory vault, that natural logarithm thing is stored somewhere, so the last poem was an AHA! moment. Thanks for the math refresher.
I didn't know the answer until you said "cherry, apple and whatever else." good teaser anyway
Very good job. Really liked this one and it was so well written too.
Great! Despite a background in Math, couldnt get the answer.
I thought the first one was star, but got the third one right.
I thought the first one was star, but got the third one right.
Excellent, I now know what aloo pie is! Thanks and please *bake* us some more puzzles!
After figuring out that the final answer is PIE, I was able to figure out that Thing 1 is PI, but I could not figure how you got E for Thing 2.
Thanks for getting us revved up this morning with a fun teaser!
Thanks for getting us revved up this morning with a fun teaser!
OK everybody. The base number in a logarithm can change. The natural logarithm uses the number "e" as the base.
If you don't understand logarithms, it's natural you didn't catch "e"
If you don't understand logarithms, it's natural you didn't catch "e"
Aloo pie is basically potato pie.
I guessed pie
EASY, BUT I ENJOYED THE RHYME. TKS.
Wow this was fun. I couldn't get the "e" part, but intuitively put it together based on the 1st and 3rd clue.
Let's see if saxman gets it. nya nya nya
Let's see if saxman gets it. nya nya nya
way to easy..
Easy,but interesting.
I got pi really easily but could not figure out part 2. I knew the treat was pie but I thought maybe it was more than just pie...pie alamode or something. I just didn't know what the frog on a log was.
Great hard teaser. Made me think and was really well worded. Good job!!!
Great hard teaser. Made me think and was really well worded. Good job!!!
HEY JIMBO. THAT'S RUDE.
my maternal grandparents are
French-Canadian.!!!
I am insulted by your slurr.
Should I report it? Que'st Que C'est?
my maternal grandparents are
French-Canadian.!!!
I am insulted by your slurr.
Should I report it? Que'st Que C'est?
great teaser!!!!
Excellent job !! I too thought 1st of an abacus.
The part 2 I learned something.
Rose Thanx
Excellent job !! I too thought 1st of an abacus.
The part 2 I learned something.
Rose Thanx
great teaser...i got pi, but what does a frog have to do with "e"?
Such a cute poem! I have a math degree, so it was easy...but soooooo cute!!!
Like a lot of people I got Pi, but I couldn't get the e . I figured the answer was pie something. Maybe next year !
I got thing one.
I also thought thing 1 was an abacus, but then thing 2 made no sense. I finally figured it out when thing 2 popped into my head. Thanks for the post, it was fun.
this was hard!!!!!!! i was stumped...the end should have been a giveaway...but i was still clueless!!! uuhh...i think im just still a little sleepy...my brain's not workin properly...
Got Thing 1 but never learned Thing 2 until now!
I too was unable to get the "e" part of the riddle. You learn something new everyday....
The saying, "Easy as pie," I am told, was originally "Easy as pi" which was coined by a math teacher.
great one!
Great Job!
Awes me!!!
I am a math genius, so this was easy for me.
Great Teaser - Keep It Up!!!
I am a math genius, so this was easy for me.
Great Teaser - Keep It Up!!!
That was an okay teaser... Although I've heard better.
Although i am not good at math or riddles lol.
Although i am not good at math or riddles lol.
I'm in the group with many others of getting 1 and 3 but not 2. Nice work on the poem!
i got the 'pi' for first and 'e' kinda (natural log math crap) for second and thought the answer is something pie. but not by combinin 'pi' + 'e' .. strange
Aloo in Hindi ( National language of India) is Potato
Genie-Ass
Aloo in Hindi ( National language of India) is Potato
Genie-Ass
nice, but easy, (for a math major) I never had a potato pie! but I love aloo gobi, an Indian dish, (made from potatos and cauliflower)...I'm really hungry for Indian food now.
Very unique!! Very well-written rhyme and a great teaser too!!
very fun and well done. I like it alot.
For the first one, I was also thinking abacus, but then the end gave it away -_-, and for the second, nothing sparked, and when I read the third, I was like, OMG! Pineapple! But what the heck? The second one is the letter e? That's hard..
got 1/2 like everyone else
Awww it was easier than I thought ... I saw the pi, and figured it was "something pie" although the pi was the first part, so in the order of Thing 1 and Thing 2 it would be "pie something" but ... that didn't seem to work for anything. I even use e a lot in my work, but the frog thing threw me off the ln (lawn -haha.)
Obviously I should pay more attention to the title ... or redo pre-calc. pi=+/-e? I choose option a.
uh.. pi of course.. i was wayyy off with the fairies on this one...give teasers a break time lol
REPEATS,REPEATS,REPEATS, THANKS EDITORS.
I liked how they were almost limericks.
and everybody knows Pi(R) round, cornbread R^2
I hated this Teaser as a Riddle or anything.
This Teaser made No sense or failed at displaying any true Logic. Usually, I have nothing but nice expressions about the Teasers created. People work hard to entertain, teach or preach to us, but this one, blahhhhh
This Teaser made No sense or failed at displaying any true Logic. Usually, I have nothing but nice expressions about the Teasers created. People work hard to entertain, teach or preach to us, but this one, blahhhhh
Pie Pi in any sense of the term was not a means of mathematical expression that old in nation, not to mention in Greek.
Got is one, nice job.
Though, after the first line, my initial thought was abacus, I solved the Part 1 quite readily but wasn't able to come up with the letter 'e' for the answer to the 2nd. I agree with those who say it was unnecessary as even without it I came up with Pie as the final solution (Pi being used to mean Pie). Before I read it, I was expecting the 2nd part to direct us to a specific type of pie.
Glad to get Thing 1, not phased at all by not getting Thing 2....that would never have happened for me! I enjoyed the creativity-
I thought the comments were as interesting (if not more so) than the riddle. Thanks!
Again I got Pi right away, but "e" eluded me.
I have no idea what pi or E is. I must have missed whatever subject that was in school. Obviously I did not guess other than think of an abacus. That I knew, but it was not that. Guess I am not too sharp at these things.
Great riddle, thanks a lot! Even if it was an easy pie (pun intended) for me, I had a lot of fun!
Once again I liked the riddle; LOVED the poem; guessed at PI but wasn't sure about PIE. I didn't get the connection. But I did appreciate the creativity.
u r making me hungry
gr8 riddle
gr8 riddle
Pi was easy, but e took me a little bit. Great teaser! Fun and challenging, although I'm sure some will say "impossible" and others will say "too easy". I thought it was just right
Fun and entertaining mathematical teaser. I got it with the last line. Pie was the only thing that fit and the rest was obtained by working backward.
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