Floating Point Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words floating, point and/or numbers:

    “I myself have seen the floating ships
    And nothing will ever be the same
    The shouts,
    The harrowing voices within the house.
    I stand apart with an army:
    My mind is graven with ships.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “The ellipse is as aimless as that,
    Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
    In our present. Its flexing is its account,
    Return to the point of no return.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Green grow the rushes-O
    What is your one-O?”
    —Unknown. Carol of the Numbers (l. 2–3)