Word: diameterically
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Pi, as every schoolchild used to know, is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. But in the electronic age, the ancient Babylonian constant -- or rather the accurate calculation of its value -- has become a symbol of computational prowess. In the 1950s the U.S. led the...
Londoners have feared that the same fate would befall the two newest finds. The remains of the Rose were unexpectedly discovered last February after an office building was demolished on the south bank of the Thames in preparation for the erection of a new nine-story complex. The archaeological team...
Before you become alarmed, however, you should understand that this was a close encounter only in a relative sense. At its closest, the asteroid was about 450,000 miles away, roughly twice the distance between the earth and the moon. Still, in cosmic terms it was virtually a direct hit...
In fact, some of the nongene regions on the genome have already been identified as instructions necessary for DNA to replicate itself during cell division. Their message is obviously detailed and complex. Explains George Bell, head of genome studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory: "It's as if you had...
Taisei calls its project Alice City, after Lewis Carroll's heroine who went underground by way of a rabbit hole. The company, which has drawn up elaborate plans, envisions two huge concrete "infrastructure" cylinders, each 197 ft. tall and with a diameter of 262 ft., that would be built as...