Quotes About Number

If I am a clerk, then one prophecy will prove true.' 'Oh, and which one would that be?' Cotillion asked, seemingly amused that Karsa was capable of speech. 'The tyranny of the number counters will be a bloody one.

Pi is fundamentally a child of calculus. It is defined as the unattainable limit of a never-ending process.

Thus the hexagon argument demonstrates ? > 3.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

I definitely have been nervous, but often I get more nervous performing with the corps de ballet than doing a solo. There's so much pressure doing a group number because if you muck it up, you've ruined it for everyone.

I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you.

I am a mathematician and I can confidently say that the best figure ever produced is your phone number.

An alien had given her his phone number and asked her to wait. It was almost like dating again.

The only useful thing about military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population,' he would remark. 'And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years.

Tori gives a nervous nod. She imagines that all sorts of things could go wrong with it. The human body isn't supposed to be transformed into such a device. She assumes that she'll be calling this number a lot.

Age is only a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behavior.

Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that.

The damp floor of the Internet sprouted Lecter theories like toadstools and sightings of the doctor rivaled those of Elvis in number.

Five is the most sacred number in the firmament." She motioned.

Definitions of number, as given by several later mathematicians, make the limit of an infinite sequence identical with the sequence itself. Under this view, the question as to whether the variable reaches its limit is without logical meaning. Thus the infinite sequence .9, .99, .999,... is the number one, and the question, "Does it ever reach one?" is an attempt to give a metaphysical argument which shall satisfy intuition.

Thus the required rigor was found in the application of the concept of number, made formal by divorcing it from the idea of geometrical quantity

The mathematical theory of continuity is based, not on intuition, but on the logically developed theories of number and sets of points.

Mach also felt strongly the empirical origin of mathematics and held with Aristotle that geometric concepts are the product of idealization of physical experiences of space. In conformity necessarily to be given to the number i. In this respect he is in agreement with a number of present-day scientists, who feel that the square root of -1 simply "forms a part of various ingenious devices for handling otherwise intractable situations.

Four is the only numeral spelled with the same amount of letters as its numerical value.

Bill Baker, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, quipped that we used to treat servers like pets: "You name them and when they get sick, you nurse them back to health. [Now] servers are [treated] like cattle. You number them and when they get sick, you shoot them.

Drew sent for Rachel's SS-5, the form she completed when she applied for a Social Security account number.

There was a young fellow from Trinity Who took But the number of digits Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

era RG-32 la elección lógica; de hecho, la única. No fue difícil explicarle de algún modo lo que necesitábamos. Archie (era costumbre llamar a un robot por alguna perversión vulgar de su número de serie)

For instance, in a book entitled Mathematics and the Imagination (published in 1940) the authors, Edward Kasner and James Newman, introduced a number called the googol, which is good and large and which was promptly taken up by writers of books and articles on popular mathematics. Personally, I think it is an awful name, but the young child of one of the authors invented it, and what could a proud father do? Thus, we are afflicted forever with that baby-talk number.