Word: complement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indeed, by using only addition, the computer can perform the three other arithmetic functions. Multiplication is often accomplished by repeated additions, division by repeated subtractions. Subtraction, on the other hand, can be done by an old trick known in the decimal system as "casting out nines"- taking the nines complement of the number to be subtracted and then adding 1 to the result. The operation is even easier with binary numbers; the complement is obtained by changing...
Curry oozed finesse with a stylish fall-away jumper to complement a pair of Carle baskets as Harvard began a 19-1 tear that erased a 41-35 deficit and concurrently gave the hosts a commanding 54-42 bulge. The flashy playmaker finished with 14 points, nine rebounds and six assists...
...themselves Tuesday, when Cunningham led an historic Learning from Performers lecture-demonstration in the Radcliffe Gym. The Cunningham company is in Massachusetts on a five-week Pilot Long Term Residency program in which master classes, films, and exhibits of work by artists who have been associated with Cunningham complement the company's unique exposition of dance...
Hooft added six rebounds to his 13 points while Fine notched three assists to complement his 11 markers. Booker and Hadley hit for ten points each...
...legend in Dallas is that Cowboy Owner Clint Murchison bought a computer company solely to complement and exploit his coach's style. Whatever the case, one of the electronic brains was soon harnessed to answer a difficult question: Which young men could play successfully under Landry's byzantine flex defense and multiple offense? At Cowboy headquarters, part of the basement and a full wall upstairs are lined with 1,500 big black ledgers that detail the size, speed, strength and character of every professional football prospect known to man, God and the truly all-seeing and all-knowing: the Cowboys...