Quotes About Arithmetical

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Contrary to all prior belief, the vast continent of arithmetical truth cannot be brought into systematic order by laying down for once and for all a fixed set of axioms and rules of inference from which every true arithmetical statement can be formally derived.

What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth?

I'll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn't touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.

Eighthly, concerning another line of reasoning, it is shewn that simple bodies of identical nature in innumerable diverse worlds have similar motion, and that merely arithmetical diversity causeth a difference of locality, each part having his own centre and being also referred to the common centre which cannot be sought within the universe.

describes how unchecked population growth is exponential while the growth of the food supply is expected to be arithmetical, thereby inevitably resulting—he reasoned—in a not-too-distant global famine