Ten decimals are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to a fraction of an inch, and thirty decimals would give the circumference of the whole visible universe to a quantity imperceptible with the most powerful microscope.


Quoted in Herbert Edwin Hawkes, William Arthur Luby and Frank, Charles Touton

Simon Newcomb Quotes

Ten decimals are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to a fraction of an inch, and thirty decimals would give the circumference of the...

Ten decimals are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to a fraction of an inch, and thirty decimals would give the circumference of the...

Ten decimals are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to a fraction of an inch, and thirty decimals would give the circumference of the...

Ten decimals are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to a fraction of an inch, and thirty decimals would give the circumference of the...