Word: digit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...typical LED display, such as those made by RCA, Monsanto or General Electric, each digit is formed of seven separately wired segments on a single base plate (see diagram). Reminiscent of matchsticks laid out for a parlor game, the segments are so arranged that they can form any digit from 0 to 9. The trick is to send an electric current into the proper combination of segments to form the required number...
Delighted by his success, Dutka is now eying more ambitious projects: calculating million-digit values for TT (3.14159 . . .), the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter; and the mathematical constant e (2.71828 . . .), the base of natural logarithms and one of the most significant numbers in higher mathematics. Says Dutka: "After that, I can well afford to call it quits...
...nine years ahead of Orwellian projections, every West German citizen may be officially known to his government by a twelve-digit number. The government has sent the Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) a proposal that would identify each person by six digits indicating his birth date, a seventh his sex and the century of his birth, the next four to distinguish him from others born on the same day, and the last a "control" number-which would make Chancellor Willy Brandt Number 181213 3 1234 5 or something very close to that. The number will follow a person from birth...
...Newark College of Engineering, which is a center for studies of extrasensory perception, conducted a test of 67 high executives, mostly corporate presidents. He asked them to choose any number from zero to 9. They had to make the choice 100 different times, always picking a one-digit number. When the executives had finished their part of the experiment, an IBM computer, which was programmed to operate at random, also selected 100 numbers...
...Columbia, thanks to Don Jackson, may score more against Dartmouth than any other Ivy team has this year-Harvard holds the record of 14. Of course, Bob Blackman won't be holding back either; he wants that Lambert Trophy and the right to demand from the alumni a three-digit scoreboard for next year. The Indians...