Average Fractional Frequency

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

    “Since the Civil War its six states have produced fewer political ideas, as political ideas run in the Republic, than any average county in Kansas or Nebraska.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “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)