Word: code
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SEMITIC CONFERENCE. "The Votaries of the Hammurabi Code." Professor Lyon. Room 2, Semitic Museum...
SEMITIC CONFERENCE. "The Votaries of the Hammurabi Code." Professor Lyon. Room 2, Semitic Museum...
There has been placed on exhibit in the Assyrian room of the Semitic Museum a plaster cast of the stone, on which is written the Code of Laws of Hammurabi, king of Babylonia about 2250 B.C. There are 44 columns of writing containing 247 laws which give evidence of an advanced civilization among the Babylontans 1000 years before the time of Moses...
...executive committee of the Handball Association is framing a set of rules to be published. One hundred copies will be placed on sale at the C0-operative, and 100 will be sent to universities and colleges throughout the country. These rules will differ somewhat from the code now in use among professional players...
Some of the advantages of Mr. Gerrish's system are its simplicity, the translation of numbers to and from the code without the use of a code book, and the possibility of detecting and correcting errors by inspection. The code itself is in reality a language of eleven words, each of which is a monosyllable of two letters. The series represents the ten digits with an eleventh character. In these monosyllables any one consonant is invariably associated with the same vowel and is never used in any other connection. The two letters thus form a combination which affords a means...