Relative Error Bound

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

    “Man may have his opinion as to the relative importance of feeding his body and nourishing his soul, but he is allowed by Nature to have no opinion whatever as to the need for feeding the body before the soul can think of anything but the body’s hunger.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus “theoretically,” is to use language in a Pickwickian sense. In practice, and in fact, mathematics is not exempt from that liability to error that affects everything that man does.”
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

    “Aunt,
    you know that Tree of Love,
    its roots bound in long affection
    and tended with respect?
    No one heard it falling.”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)