Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic

Famous quotes containing the words arbitrary, precision and/or arithmetic:

    “It is not an arbitrary “decree of God,” but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Women on trains
    have a life
    that is exactly livable
    the precision of days flashing past”
    —Audre Lorde (1934–1992)

    “O! O! another stroke! that makes the third.
    He stabs me to the heart against my wish.
    If that be so, thy state of health is poor;
    But thine arithmetic is quite correct.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)