Number Field Sieve

Famous quotes containing the words number, field and/or sieve:

    He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men, of men in distant countries, and in past times.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “My mother thinks us long away;
    ‘Tis time the field were mown.
    She had two sons at rising day,
    To-night she’ll be alone.
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
    In a Sieve they went to sea:
    In spite of all their friends could say,
    On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,
    Edward Lear (1812–1888)