Chord Length

Famous quotes containing the words chord and/or length:

    “The notes, random
    From tuning, wander into the heat
    Like a new insect chirping in the scrub,
    Untired at noon. A chord gathers and spills....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “When I had mapped the pond ... I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)