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The Honeymoon Machine. An electronic computer helps three young people outsmart the Venice casino in a film that clicks cheerfully to a silly conclusion.
Since a computer prefers to read numbers, McDonough designed an eight-digit code covering all possibilities in the Iliad's 250,000 syllables. The digits represent eight variables: syllables at the beginning, middle or end of words, and monosyllables, all four of which can be either long or short...
Produced for a doctoral thesis at Columbia University, the result is a huge black notebook composed of pages and pages of numbers-a coded guide to all 157 varieties of syllabic patterns in the Iliad's 112,000 words and 15,693 lines. McDonough can now say, for example...
¶ Electronic computer for the duffer who practices with plastic golf balls in his living room, sold by Manhattan's Hammacher Schlemmer. The machine figures out how far each drive would have traveled on the links, whether it was hooked, sliced, or straight down the fairway. Price: $1,595...
One of the machine's first tests was to distinguish sonar signals bounced off a submarine from those bounced off a porpoise, the ocean floor, or schools of fish. Even an ordinary computer could solve the same problem, but only after a tedious programing telling it exactly how. The...