Clever dicks will notice that the figure changes as the boat gets deeper or lighter because the area of the waterplane changes. You can go on enjoying arithmetic all night like this and never go sailing at all.

William R. Cooper

Mots clés arithmetic

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I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

C.S. Lewis

Mots clés mathematics arithmetic

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It's completely logical," explained the Dodecahedron. "The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you have. Simple arithmetic, that's all. Suppose you had something and added something to it. What would that make?"
"More," said Milo quickly.
"Quite correct," he nodded. "Now suppose you had something and added nothing to it. What would you have?"
"The same," he answered again, without much conviction.
"Splendid," cried the Dodecahedron. "And suppose you had something and added less than nothing to it. What would you have then?"
"FAMINE!" roared the anguished Humbug, who suddenly realized that that was exactly what he'd eaten twenty-three bowls of.

Norton Juster

Mots clés logic arithmetic

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Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.

David Levithan

Mots clés fate arithmetic

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