Quotes About Calculation

whenever accuracy is the goal, bias and noise play the same role in the calculation of overall error.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

A bell cannot tell time, but it can be moved in just such a way as to say twelve o'clock – similarly, a man cannot calculate infinite numbers, but he can be moved in just such a way as to say pi.

Now $12 on the $100 for money to be paid back regularly over half a year works out to something like forty-eight per cent real interest.

However much Ylo enjoyed women, he would always expect them to have fun, also. He believed quite honestly that he was doing them a good turn. With his word of power to aid him, Andor was a much more calculating hunter. He knew the damage his seductions might cause. Not only would he care little about hurting his victims, he probably enjoyed that, also. There was a difference between amorality and immorality — not much of one, but some. The

His calculation showed that the NHS employs more than four times as many managers and support staff per nurse than a private hospital.

We enter into no illegal turpitude until rather careful reflection has assured us of its expediency.

The banker also knows that whatever rates it can get if needed for anything it need to times 3 the rates for the money loaned out

distance = (speed) × (time).

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

She ruminated, wondering in terms of ration, quotient, multiplicand, root, power, infinity, surd.

According to our chronology, [the creation of the world] fell upon the entrance of the night preceding the twenty third day of October in the year of the Julian Calendar, 710 [4004 b.c.e.].

He questioned if leadership success could be obtained by attaching oneself to a series of titled positions. If a person focused too much on a future that could not be controlled, he would become, Roosevelt acknowledged, too "careful, calculating, cautious in word and act." Thereafter, he would jettison long-term career calculations and focus simply on whatever job opportunity came his way, assuming it might be his last.

If a person focused too much on a future that could not be controlled, he would become, Roosevelt acknowledged, too "careful, calculating, cautious in word and act.

Subject to intelligence, nothing is incalculable.

Nicholas had never before felt amused by anything to do with Simon. He divided twelve quickly by three and concluded that he had not been punched seriously on the head.

Discretion plays a major part in making up the salesman's art, for truths that no one can believe are calculated to deceive.

Why, how much did you tip him?' Ford named a figure again. 'I don't know how much it is,' said Arthur. 'What's it worth in pounds sterling? What could it buy you?' 'It would probably buy you, roughly... er...' Ford screwed his eyes up as he did some calculations in his head. 'Switzerland,' he said at last.

según un cálculo aproximado, soy treinta billones de veces más inteligente que tú. Déjame ponerte un ejemplo. Piensa un número, cualquiera. —Humm, el cinco —dijo el colchón. —Incorrecto —repuso Marvin—. ¿Lo ves? El colchón quedó muy impresionado y comprendió que se hallaba en presencia de un intelecto nada desdeñable

Trillian punched up the figures. They showed two-to-the-power-of-Infinity-minus-one to one against (an irrational number that only has a conventional meaning in Improbability Physics).

Bistromathics," he said, "the most powerful computational force known to parascience.

And are you not," said Fook, leaning anxiously forward, "a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?

I think there's something heavenly about numbers, anyway.

He used deliberation as others use quickness of repartee.