Word: digit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This dictum, pronouned after practice, had to be modified on the appearance in the medical sanctum of assistant coach Eddie Davis with a wounded second finger on his right hand. Davis, a giant tackle on the 1946 team and a present Business School student, revealed that the injured digit had been "caught in a mousetrap play...
...machine which can do 100 six-digit multiplications in a minute through a box in which there are no movable parts (the answer to the answers: 396 electronic tubes...
Nine. A preoccupied, businesslike air marks Nine. At home and in school he perfects his skills by repetition-whether it is throwing darts or dividing by one digit. Usually a good pupil, especially at math, Nine likes to classify his knowledge (flags, airplanes, military ranks). Beginning to develop a conscience, Nine takes blame if he thinks he deserves it, but has the inner resources to get along without praise. Nine does not want to be babied, favors his gang over his family...
...Ferguson of the Royal Naval College, Eaton, Chester, started poking around in the old numbers. He made a shocking discovery, promptly wrote a letter to Nature, the London Times of British science. On the 528th decimal, Ferguson had found a one-digit discrepancy. The rest was chaos...
Basic tool of Renshaw's method is a gadget for flashing images briefly on a screen. Students are given no time to ponder details; they have to grasp the whole picture fast. Renshaw starts them off with a four-digit number, showing it for 1/50th of a second. As the students learn, the numbers get longer. A student recently reproduced a twelve-digit number (568790154123) after looking at it for less than a second...