Word: abacus
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...money is on Montana, and my only advice is to bring your abacus...
...caused an electrical current in a superconducting ring to flow simultaneously clockwise (representing 1) and counterclockwise (0). The result was a "qubit," a quantum representation of both the digits of binary arithmetic. In other labs, qubits have been devised from single atoms. Whatever is used as the quantum abacus beads, the result is an exponential explosion in computing power...
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...familiar with the threat of the YM problem last year, when the abaci that recorded the Year CMXCVIIIJ were to roll over and show the year...well, something other than the Year M. [The lack of a zero can cause problems sometimes.] Luckily, few people were using the abacus, since it had only been introduced to Europe a few decades earlier by Gerbert of Aurillac, now Pope Sylvester II. [This is part of how you got to be Pope in those days. Want to make friends and influence people? Learn the abacus...
...mess of bad press. But it wasn't until the company's stock plunged and two key business partners--Altavista and Kozmo--broke ranks that DoubleClick finally backed down. "I made a mistake," said CEO Kevin O'Connor, whose $1.7 billion purchase last fall of tracking data from Abacus Direct alerted privacy watchdogs that something was afoot...