Relative Error Bound

Famous quotes containing the words relative, error and/or bound:

    “In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.”
    —Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)

    “What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “Think not, thou noble Roman,
    That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome.
    He bears too great a mind.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)