Quotes About Arithmetic

Do you know why the arithmetic book was so sad? A: It had so many problems inside!

Multiplication is vexation,Division is as bad;The rule of three doth puzzle me,And practice drives me mad.

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.

ALIQUANT  (A'LIQUANT)   adj.[aliquantus, Lat.]Parts of a number, which, however repeated, will never make up the number exactly; as, 3 is an aliquant of 10, thrice 3 being 9, four times 3 making 12.

It will also tell you how easy it is to do just that: simply buy the entire stock market. Then, once you have bought your stocks, get out of the casino and stay out. Just hold the market portfolio forever. And that's what the index fund does. This investment philosophy is not only simple and elegant. The arithmetic on which it is based is irrefutable. But it is not easy to follow its discipline. So

Mathematicians call it "the arithmetic of congruences." You can think of it as clock arithmetic. Temporarily replace the 12 on a clock face with 0. The 12 hours of the clock now read 0, 1, 2, 3, … up to 11. If the time is eight o'clock, and you add 9 hours, what do you get? Well, you get five o'clock. So in this arithmetic, 8 + 9 = 5; or, as mathematicians say, 8 + 9 ? 5 (mod 12), pronounced "eight plus nine is congruent to five, modulo twelve.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

had to make fun of Wanda. She worked her arithmetic problems absentmindedly. Eight times eight . . . let's see . . . nothing she could do about making fun of Wanda.

People often extending their support to a person forms a comprehensive report about his or her level of mind power through their weighted arithmetic mean brain size as who he or she is-Wise Or Otherwise.

Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.

Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

Who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense - from "Progress and it's Sustainability

La guerra, reflexiona Pardeiro mientras mira irse al sargento, es sobre todo cuestión de aritmética: Dios ayuda a los malos cuando son más que los buenos.

Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your thumbs.

Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs.

I'd hate to do arithmetic, George thought to himself, in a system based on fourteen.

one-way functions are sometimes called Humpty Dumpty functions. Modular arithmetic, sometimes called clock arithmetic in schools, is an area of mathematics that is rich in one-way functions. In modular arithmetic, mathematicians consider a finite group of numbers arranged in a loop

Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with numbers. (Paraphrasing Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz)

Love, dear, is in my eyes the first principle of all the virtues, conformed to the divine likeness. Like all other first principles, it is not a matter of arithmetic; it is the Infinite in us.