Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic

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

    “Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

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

    “‘Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes,—thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)