Double Precision Calculations

Famous quotes containing the words double, precision and/or calculations:

    “You spotted snakes with double tongue,
    Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen.
    Newts and blindworms, do no wrong,
    Come not near our Fairy Queen.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.”
    —Titus Livius (Livy)