Eeny, meeny, miny, moe MGM's "Ars Gratia Artis". The rhyme appears towards the end of 1949 British black comedy, "Kind Hearts and Coronets". The use of the word "nigger" was censored for the American market, being replaced by "sailor". Eeny, meeny, miny, moe "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" — which can be spelled a number of ways — is a children's counting rhyme, used to select a person in games such as tag, or for selecting various other things. It is one of a large group of similar rhymes in which the child who is pointed to by the chanter on the last syllable is
Ars Magna (Gerolamo Cardano) is square roots of negative numbers appear naturally in this context. However, "q"/4 + "p"/27 never happens to be negative in the specific cases in which Cardano applies the formula. Ars Magna (Gerolamo Cardano) The Ars Magna ("The Great Art") is an important Latin-language book on algebra written by Gerolamo Cardano. It was first published in 1545 under the title "Artis Magnæ, Sive de Regulis Algebraicis Liber Unus" ("Book number one about The Great Art, or The Rules of Algebra"). There was a second edition in Cardano's lifetime, published in 1570. It is considered one of the three greatest scientific