Relative Error Bound

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

    “It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Custom calls me to’t.
    What custom wills, in all things should we do’t,
    The dust on antique time would lie unswept,
    And mountainous error be too highly heaped
    For truth to o’erpeer.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.”
    —Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)