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Quotes About Fraction

Who the hell let you animals into my office? I'll have you know I was playing a VERY unimportant game of chess right now with a man that kept saying King me.
~ Matt Fraction
For the next life, screw everybody. Oh who am I fooling? I don't want a next life. I just want a nap.
~ Matt Fraction
0.33333. . . . .= 1/3. Multiply both sides by 3 and you'll see 0.99999. . . .= 3/3= 1.
~ Jordan Ellenberg
Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001, or one ten million trillion trillion trillionths11 of a second.
~ Bill Bryson
I'm just a piece of the pie, a slice of the pound cake.
~ Charles Oakley
Lashley also reported no apparent change in the general behavior of a rat when significant fractions—say 10 percent—of its brain were removed. But no one asked the rat of its opinion.
~ Carl Sagan
As ever, only a small fraction of
~ Hugh Thomson
That latter result, 3 + 10/70, reduces to 22/7, the famous approximation to ? that all students still learn today and that some unfortunately mistake for ? itself.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
Kad?n asl?nda düÅŸünen bir bütün müdür, yoksa her zaman tümleyicisini arayan bir kesir mi?
~ Thomas Hardy
A little more care in crafting the message by the sender could reduce the overall time spent by all parties by a significant fraction.
~ Cal newport
Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.
~ George Gaylord Simpson
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
~ Seth Lloyd
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
~ Arthur Koestler
A single neuron in the brain is an incredibly complex machine that even today we don't understand. A single 'neuron' in a neural network is an incredibly simple mathematical function that captures a minuscule fraction of the complexity of a biological neuron.
~ Andrew Ng
Convert any common fraction to a decimal fraction by dividing the lower number (denominator) into the upper number (numerator). For example, ¾ = 3 + 4 = 0.75. The result is also known as a proportion. Multiply it by 100 to convert it into a percentage. Recognition
~ The Economist
At 5:29:45, everything happened at once. But it was too fast for the watchers to distinguish: no human eye can separate millionths of a second; no human brain can record such a fraction of time. No one, therefore, saw the actual first flash of cosmic fire. What they saw was its dazzling reflection on surrounding hills. It was, in the words of the observer from The New York Times:
~ Gordon Thomas
At 5:29:45, everything happened at once. But it was too fast for the watchers to distinguish: no human eye can separate millionths of a second; no human brain can record such a fraction of time. No one, therefore, saw the actual first flash of cosmic fire. What they saw was its dazzling reflection on surrounding hills. It was, in the words of the observer from The New York Times: a light not of this world, the light of many suns in one.
~ Gordon Thomas
Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
~ Thomas Hardy
Now the denominator ... why don't they just call it the bottom number? The denominator ... that sounds like a Schwarzenegger movie doesn't it? [impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger] I am the Denominator. I'll give your leg a compound fraction!
~ Tim Allen
5/11 is about half. 217 is about 200.
~ Chip Heath
only one-third
~ Chris White
The half is greater than the whole.
~ Hesiod