Word: digit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sporting? Try your hand at the Direct Distance Sweepstakes. Dial any ten numbers with a zero or one as the second digit and guess where you'll end up It could be any place in the United States or Canada. And don't worry about the cost; chances are you won't hit a working number...
...world which every day I find nastier and nastier." Anti-Bomb Activist Braine did not expect to be troubled by the big bad world for long. Reminded of his prophecy of last year that "there won't be a 1962," he alibied: "Perhaps I just slipped a digit. What is a year? At least when a writer makes a mistake, it doesn't do you any harm, but the politicians...
Since a computer prefers to read numbers, McDonough designed an eight-digit code covering all possibilities in the Iliad's 250,000 syllables. The digits represent eight variables: syllables at the beginning, middle or end of words, and monosyllables, all four of which can be either long or short. To "translate" every line in the poem in these terms, McDonough used computers that he begged and borrowed time on, from Harvard to Columbia. Then, summing up all the metrical patterns, one machine, in a total of five hours, clacked out a detailed analysis of the Iliad's style...
This means that 3,000 shares of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer were sold at $54.50 per share, and 300 shares of Emerson Radio & Phonograph (ERP) at $14.87½ (in 100-share lots the zeros are always omitted). When the tape is one minute late, the first digit is dropped from the price of the sale to speed up transmission, e.g., the M-G-M notation would read 3000s4½. When three minutes behind, the last two digits of the number of shares traded are also dropped, so that the tape would read 30s4½. When five minutes late, another sending machine...
...Forbush will start in the nets for the Crimson, unless the weather is inclement, in which case sophomore John Adams will probably play. Forbush, with his dislocated finger taped to the digit next to it, cannot put on the gloves Crimson goalies customarily use in cold or wet conditions...