Word: digital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Food for Thought. In Chicago, Mrs. Josephine De Franza sued her husband for divorce, charging that he 1) forced their eight-year-old son to tackle multiplication problems involving ten-digit numbers, 2) twisted her arm when she tried to help the boy, 3) pounded the child's knuckles for wrong answers, 4) rewarded correct answers with raw meat on the theory that it improved the brain...
...Willoughby's intelligence system "is nothing short of miraculous . . . On Dec. 26 he . . . said the Communists had 444,406 troops actually in Korea, of which 277,173 were Chinese and 167,233 North Koreans. I have never seen a wartime report of enemy strength . . . meticulous to the nearest digit...
...digit was broken when Clasby grabbed the nose-guard of a Brown back. His hand caught in the frame and the bone fractured. The injury was not apparent from the stands; Clasby passed with great effectiveness throughout the whole fourth quarter. He completed seven of ten passes for 85 yards and one touchdown. In addition, he ran for a touchdown himself...
...idea of a Baltimore adman, Lucky Number is based on a five-to-nine-digit master number which listeners must match up with the numbers on their Social Security cards, drivers' licenses or auto permits. By last week so many were scrambling for the $100 prizes that one Washington station was pumping out lucky numbers twelve times a day, and professional listeners were already popping up offering to keep tabs for anyone who was too busy to listen himself. The only check in sight seemed to be the Supreme Court, which is expected to hand down its decision...
...example, multiply a 16-digit number by another number just as long, subtract something from the product, square the result and add something to the square. From time to time it refers to tables of figures imbedded in its memory, selects the proper figure and includes it in its calculations. It remembers intermediate figures for a fraction of a second, uses them when needed, and then rubs them out like chalk marks on a blackboard. It does all these things and more, without mistakes, faster than a human being can jot down a single figure. When the machine is through...