Power and Root
Fallacies involving disregarding the rules of elementary arithmetic through an incorrect manipulation of the radical. For complex numbers the failure of power and logarithm identities has led to many fallacies.
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Famous quotes containing the words power and, power and/or root:
“Power and speed be hands and feet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“The root of the problem is not so much that our people have lost confidence in government, but that government has demonstrated time and again its lack of confidence in the people.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)