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...Egyptian Ahmes, the Moonborn, described the almost exact formula for determining the area of a circle. By using tables of squared numbers,* the Mesopotamians learned to multiply without the use of an abacus. Pythagoras, who was the leader of a secret mathematical and religious sect, stated his famous theorem about right triangles (the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides). After him came even greater names: Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, who estimated the circumference of the earth (about 24,000 miles), and Hipparchus, who anticipated the modern tables of sines...
...Shift. IBM's success in office automation was built on machines of cogs and gears; its swift tabulating machine was basically only a mechanical improvement on the first one built by Blaise Pascal in 1640, which in turn was an improvement on the ancient Chinese abacus. But in the last few years there has been a profound change in the business. The mechanical cogs and gears have given way to electronic circuits, cathode-ray tubes and transistors. For IBM the change could not have come at a better time. Tom Watson Sr.. who had improved his machines close...
...Satyrs, James Wood and Loring Bruce displayed a degree of uninhibited rambunctiousness that is probably unparalleled in the history of Paine Hall. And Douglas Saxe, dextrously manipulating his abacus, was quite convincing as the Mathematician. He sang with great verve, and upheld the high standard of comedy. The always lovely voice of Dorothy Barn-house made the minor role of the goddess a powerful and moving experience...
...TIME'S People researcher-and TIME'S readers-an abacus, a telescope and a subscription to the Army, Navy, Air Force Journal. Correct star-count...
...Abacus. The Tokyo Exchange's day-to-day operation would bug many a Wall Streeter's eyes. Every day some 1,500 traders pack into a trading area only 75 feet square. On busy days, few can find room to move; they transmit their buying & selling signals by waving their bamboo fans. Their method of recording transactions is painfully cumbersome. One of the biggest brokerage houses has only one battered Remington Rand machine, does most of its arithmetic at machine speed on primitive abacuses. Frequently, its brokers and clerks have to work...