Double Precision Calculations

Famous quotes containing the words double, precision and/or calculations:

    “Was it the double of my dream
    The woman that by me lay
    Dreamed, or did we halve a dream
    Under the first cold gleam of day?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. But we would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)