Average Fractional Frequency

Famous quotes containing the words average, fractional and/or frequency:

    “Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyed this Rule!”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “Hummingbird
    stay for a fractional sharp
    sweetness, and’s gone, can’t take
    more than that.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man such a personally invasive question as “Is your wife having natural childbirth or is she planning to be knocked out?” But someone might ask that of you. No matter how much you wish for privacy, your pregnancy is a public event to which everyone feels invited.”
    —Jean Marzollo (20th century)