Odd Perfect Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words odd, perfect and/or numbers:

“Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)

“All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to support many incompetent men; for such is the favoritism and nepotism always prevailing in the purlieus of these establishments, that some incompetent persons are always admitted, to the exclusion of many of the worthy.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)