Large Numbers

A poem about infinity written using the Arabian poetry form named Muzdawidj

Archimedes reckoned in numbers grand
how he could fill the universe with sand
but as to why, I do not understand

At David Hilbert's infinite hotel
guests all endure a kind of living hell
forever changing rooms in which they dwell

John Wallis used the humble lemniscate
to represent numbers that fast inflate
as calculus then came to dominate


Written to try the form of the week from The Poet's Place group

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An Arabic form developed from the early Urdu 'Mathnawi', which used rhyming couplets.
The Muzdawidj has one major difference in that it is presented as triplets using the a. a. a. / b. b. b. / c. c. c.. pattern, rather than couplets like the Persian version.