Quotes About Number

I have a particular affection for zero because it was some of my countrymen who first gave it the status of a number.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

I've had the zeroes since junior high school. We didn't have enough numbered shirts to go around, so my shirt was called double zero. I liked it, so I kept it.

I think there is no defending a title. You don't go into a season with a points advantage over anyone. So I don't think it's ever a title defence. I think you've got a different number on your bike, if you choose so, but everyone starts at zero again.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number.

Twenty-two's my lucky number.

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.

You can make that money off the field that you're missing on the field by doing endorsements with Sleep Number and Nike and Campbell's Chunky Soup and all the other ones you see Dak doing.

'El Gordo' is the name given to the oldest lottery jackpot in the world - and the richest. Held every year in Madrid on December 22, the Christmas Lottery culminates with the picking of the El Gordo number, the Fat One, which, for many, has become the true Christmas miracle in Spain.

She sighed. "I'm your intake officer. You'll meet your probation officer after we're done with intake." "Will I have to take a number again?" "Yes." "Then please change my annoyance level to nine.

In other words, the diagonal of that square is irrational—and nowadays we recognize that number as the square root of two.

The official Government Random Number Generator used for seeding new encryption keys is a thing of legend, running as it does on a type of punched paper tape that hasn't been manufactured since the 1950s. (We had to invent some really neat hacks using digital cameras to read it into our oldest trailing-edge minicomputers in order to use those numbers . . .)

The theorem is a hack on discrete number theory that simultaneously disproves the Church-Turing hypothesis (wave if you understood that) and worse, permits NP-complete problems to be converted into P-complete ones. This has several consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms—translation: all your bank account are belong to us—and ending with the ability to computationally generate a Dho-Nha geometry curve in real time. This

For now, the key insight is that changing the number of chips on the table does not change the value of what's in the shoebox, which is all anyone cares about at the end of the night.

The larger the number of samples, the more closely the distribution will approximate the normal distribution.

Scepticism is a girl's number six

But every effort to make this work in practice at any scale failed, largely because the social bonds that police such mutual aid tend to fray when the size of the group exceeds 150 (termed the "Dunbar number"—the empirically observed limit at which the members of a human community can maintain strong links with one another).

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

chose twenty-three because he hoped to be half as good a player as his brother Larry who wore number forty-five.

despite its openness, America has its own sacred cows. One such sacred cow is that America is number one and will be number one forever

Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.

It" was continuing. The game was undeniably in progress. A long funeral procession, a crowd of peoplewearing black. A man in a black suit with a somber know-it-all face addressed them, "Oh, ShuyaNanahara and Noriko Nakagawa? You two, that's right, you're a little early. But you did just pass byyour own graves right here. We carved in the number you two share, No. 15. Don't worry, we'reoffering a special bonus.