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.”
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    “The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.”
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    “The night is darkening round me,
    The wild winds coldly blow;
    But a tyrant spell has bound me
    And I cannot, cannot go.”
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