You’re welcome!

I’m glad I discovered Reddit.

I finally have a place to stick all these random bits that are probably never gonna make their way into an actual book 😂

Hehe I really enjoyed this! Thanks for making me smile today.

There is a quiet playfulness that your tone conveys with phrases like "I cannot make this circle square/I'll tell you if, perchance, you care/" with clear attention to flow and rhythm. This poem was very clever and I really liked it. 

One note though; make the poem a little longer and allow for some more connection between each concept you write about in each line (i.e. maybe the speaker is studying for math, which is why the poem exists, as it's like a pneumonic device/maybe you can tell the reader something like "now do you like math?" at the end). Nothing critical, it would just add more of that playfulness that I personally enjoyed.

Thanks!

I mean. If you wanna be all metaphorical, go ahead:)

This poem is so good, it flows so nicely with such clever use of both mathematical and non-mathematical vocabulary! You’ve also used rhyme so nicely. 
I can see it’s a literal and humorous poem, but it could also take a figurative twist if you wanted it to, with how the impossibility of a circle becoming a square (or fitting a round peg in a square hole) may also relate to a number of other impossibilities in life - for example trying to love someone that you don’t.

This brings me back to class, and I hate it,
 
All and all I like it


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Okay, like ancient Egyptians with shadow sticks and surveyors wheels!

You can derive pi in a lot of ways, but this is talking about the oldest way, where you’re only allowed to use a stick and a string to do all of your calculations. Back before calculus when all math was essentially geometry

Very nice!  Great use of rhyme and meter!  My kind of poem!

Maybe it's my own quirk, but I get tripped up if the first syllable emphasis changes between lines (like here, that 'It CAN'T...' to 'LINDEmann..').  By the second time through I can read it smoothly.  Okay, third time - I'm pretty slow.

I thought pi was derived through an infinite series (smaller pieces), but who am I to doubt dead mathematicians?

I never thought I’d see a pi symbol in poetry. It has a good flow. I have no other feedback as I’m bad at math.

I cannot make this circle square   
I’ll tell you if, perchance, you care   
Of angles, tangents, rules, and vectors   
Mathematical conjectures   
Geometric regulation   
Disallows that shape’s creation   
You see, since π is transcendental   
And is, for circles, fundamental   
It can’t be built from smaller pieces   
Lindemann said so in his thesis   
Unless one uses better tools    
Than compasses and simple rules   
A circle, one can not prepare   
That bounds the same space as a square.


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Nerdy math poem