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8a340df	When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.	numbers	Don DeLillo
9c3634a	There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities... I cannot tell you how grateful I am for our little infinity. You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.	hazel-grace infinities john-green math numbers tfios	John Green
56feb25	He'd always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn't do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn't a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid.	humor interesting-times maths number numbers rincewind wizard zero	Terry Pratchett
ef129f1	Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.	math numbers	Jules Verne
4ab75d7	It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness--cry and then walk--but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.	life logic loss math numbers	Aimee Bender
a8886ef	Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search 's works for numbers and equations.	darwin equations measurement nobel-laureate numbers science	David H. Hubel
df92fed	"Most people would have probably lost count around seven. This was, Harry knew from his extensive reading on logic and arithmetic, the largest number that most people could visually appreciate. Put seven dots on a page, and most people can take a quick glance and declare, "Seven." Switch to eight, and the majority of humanity was lost."	humanity mathematics numbers seven	Julia Quinn
cdeeaa0	The universe is math on fire.	fire math numbers theory universe	Scott Westerfeld
81deec3	He thought again of the watch in the window. It had twelve black numbers on its moon face and there was magic to that. For these were numbers that were not really numbers at all but letters like in words. He shivered at the possibilities of such untold magic.	numbers roman-numeral time	Davis Grubb

8a340df

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

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Don DeLillo

9c3634a

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities... I cannot tell you how grateful I am for our little infinity. You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

hazel-grace infinities john-green math numbers tfios

John Green

56feb25

He'd always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn't do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn't a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid.

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Terry Pratchett

ef129f1

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

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Jules Verne

4ab75d7

It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness--cry and then walk--but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.

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Aimee Bender

a8886ef

Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search 's works for numbers and equations.

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David H. Hubel

df92fed

"Most people would have probably lost count around seven. This was, Harry knew from his extensive reading on logic and arithmetic, the largest number that most people could visually appreciate. Put seven dots on a page, and most people can take a quick glance and declare, "Seven." Switch to eight, and the majority of humanity was lost."

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Julia Quinn

cdeeaa0

The universe is math on fire.

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Scott Westerfeld

81deec3

He thought again of the watch in the window. It had twelve black numbers on its moon face and there was magic to that. For these were numbers that were not really numbers at all but letters like in words. He shivered at the possibilities of such untold magic.

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Davis Grubb