{{Short description|British recreational mathematician (1893â€“1977)}}Leigh Mercer (1893â€“1977) was a British wordplay and recreational mathematics expert.A. Ross Eckler: Leigh Mercer, Palindromist. In: Word Ways. Volume 24, Issue 3, 1991, Article 2, p. 131â€“138 weblink

Career

Palindrome

Mercer is best known for devising the palindrome “(Panama Canal|A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!)”.Published in Notes and Queries, 13 Nov. 1948, according to The Yale Book of Quotations, F. R. Shapiro, ed. (2006, {{ISBN|0-300-10798-6}}).

Mathematical limerick

The following mathematical limerick is attributed to him:WEB,www.lockhaven.edu/~DSIMANEK/mayhem.htm,www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/mayhem.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20171008070848www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/mayhem.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20171008070848www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/mayhem.htm, 2017-10-08, Math Mayhem, Lhup.edu, 2011-06-29, live,

frac{12 + 144 + 20 + 3cdot sqrt{4}}{7} + (5 times 11) = 9^2+0

This is read as follows:

A dozen, a gross, and a score Plus three times the square root of four Divided by seven Plus five times eleven Is nine squared and not a bit more.

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