Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic

Famous quotes containing the words arbitrary, precision and/or arithmetic:

    “Me, what’s that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off, I begin, and vice versa.”
    —Russell Hoban (b. 1925)

    “How should the world be luckier if this house,
    Where passion and precision have been one
    Time out of mind, became too ruinous
    To breed the lidless eye that loves the sun?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “O! O! another stroke! that makes the third.
    He stabs me to the heart against my wish.
    If that be so, thy state of health is poor;
    But thine arithmetic is quite correct.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)