Infinite Continued Fraction

Famous quotes containing the words infinite, continued and/or fraction:

    “Vast chain of Being, which from God began,
    Natures aethereal, human, angel, man,
    Beast, bird, fish, insect! what no eye can see,
    No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee,
    From thee to Nothing!—”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “Calmed by my pleading,
    she continued to list your crimes,
    found that ten fingers weren’t enough
    and cried for a long time.”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    “The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty.... From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.”
    —Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)