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math

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"Between infinite and short there is a big difference."

— G.H. Gonnet

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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

— Benjamin Disraeli

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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."

— Tom Lehrer

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"There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't."

— Seen on a bumper sticker

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"You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist."

— Len Evans

professor, Northwestern University, teaching an honors calculus course

545

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"A sine curve goes off to infinity, or at least the end of the blackboard."

— Prof. Steiner

542

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"One death is a tragedy. One thousand deaths is a statistic."

— Joseph Stalin

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"Ninety percent of everything is crap."

— Theodore Sturgeon

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"Five is a sufficiently close approximation to infinity."

— Robert Firth

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"The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable pi can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change."

— FORTRAN manual for Xerox computers
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