Positive Real Number

Famous quotes containing the words positive, real and/or number:

    “The oaks, how subtle and marine!
    Bearded, and all the layered light
    Above them swims; and thus the scene,
    Recessed, awaits the positive night.”
    —Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)

    “Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules can be analyzed into the three major components of a generative grammar: the syntactic, phonological, and semantic components.”
    —Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)