Mathematical Operation Quotes

The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?

Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.

Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful?

Change the rule and you will get a new number.

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.

My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two or more things, be this relation of what kind it may. This is the most general definition, and would include all subjects in the universe.

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.