Positive Real Number

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

    “Property is the fruit of labor—property is desirable—is a positive good in the world.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    “Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)