Quotes About Calculation

I counted off seventy-two seconds, which represents a mile at fifty miles an hour.

Reacher asked him, "What do you know about the laundromat down the block?" The guy turned back. The blade hissed and sung behind him. He looked puzzled at first, and then a little hostile, as if he suspected someone was making fun of him. Then he looked preoccupied, as if he was struggling with a difficult arithmetic calculation, and coming out with an answer he liked but didn't trust.

Tiempo. La distancia dividida por la velocidad es igual al tiempo».

the same mathematics that describes drawing pebbles from an urn can be employed to describe any series of trials in which each trial has two possible outcomes, as long as those outcomes are random and the trials are independent of each other.

Cardano worked at a time when mystical incantation was more valued than mathematical calculation.

at a time when mystical incantation was more valued than mathematical calculation.

If life on death row is safer than life on the streets, it's hard to believe that the fear of execution is a driving force in a criminal's calculus.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

which is 1.5 squares.

I admire the elegance of his calculation method; it must be great to ride those fields on the horse of genuine mathematics while we have to do our hard work on foot

It was a pointed sigh, as sighs sometimes are, not one cast into the air to evaporate, but one calculated to descend, precisely and with great effect, on a target.

Michael Berry wrote a paper called Regular and Irregular Motion. He determined the predictability of the path of a struck billiards ball. The path after the first impact is easy to determine with basic geometry. The second path is a bit harder, but still relatively easy. By the 9th impact Berry determined that the gravitational pull of a person standing next to the table had enough of an influence on the ball path that it was necessary to be included in the calculations.

The Electoral College was a concession to slave owners, an affair of both mathematical and political calculation.

Arithmetic is the death of story.

To figure out whether a decision is good or bad, you need to know not just the things that might reasonably happen and what could be gained or lost, but also the likelihood of each possibility unfolding. That means, to become a better decision-maker, you need to be willing to estimate those probabilities.

I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe.

You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misnamed. We're not so much trying to help people as we're trying to help ourselves. So let's be clear about this. So these are - in my view, they're cold calculations of national security and not aid programs.

I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise.

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

Foucault calculated that the number of degrees through which the pendulum's plane of oscillation would shift in twenty-four hours would be 360 degrees times the sine of the latitude—which thus provided a way to determine the person's north-south location on the globe.

In explaining why the UK was not a signatory to these agreements, the question is not why it turned its back on Europe, but why Britain's own combination of idealism, fear and self-interest produced a different policy calculation – and why that changed in the years that followed.

Le miré con frialdad, esa frialdad que proviene de haber descubierto un secreto que nos puede beneficiar inmensamente.