Carrollian Quatrain Solved
Once
Charles L. Dodgson got an invitation to a party; to which he austerely replied,
in the persona of Lewis Carroll:
Yet
what are all such gaieties to me
Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
x^2
+ 7x + 53
= 11 / 3.
I
went to the trouble of solving it:
x =
(-7/2) +/- i sqrt(1335) / 6
Note
that 1335 = 3*5*89; three prime Fibonacci factors!
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