Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic

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

    Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    Women on trains
    have a life
    that is exactly livable
    the precision of days flashing past
    Audre Lorde (1934–1992)

    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)