Word: digit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insidious way to re-collect our welfare dollars," says Republican State Representative Tony Van Vliet of Oregon. Lottery enthusiasts, however, contend that different games attract different players. New York's high-stakes Lotto seems to be the pick of the upper and middle classes, while three-and four-digit numbers games appeal to a more downscale market. In Arizona, a state-funded study found that lottery regulars are predominantly white males with a median age of 36 and a household income of $20,000. Says Charlie Buri, who voted against Arizona's lottery but now serves...
...JUST OVER thirty-two hours the future of computer development may have moved from strategic blueprints on the desks of high-tech executives to a nationwide trend mapped in stone. A sixty-nine digit number--the last in a century-old list of seemingly unfactorable numbers composed by a famous French mathematician--was broken down by a Cray supercomputer. The implications of this are revolutionary. While the breakdown of the number, more simply known as 2251-1, utilized only a sleek algorithm and no revolutionary advances, it signaled the ever-growing importance of ultra-sophisticated computers...
...longer is it sufficient that we have computers which can replace a horde of mathematicians in both speed and accuracy, or robots which render human laborers "impediments" to progress. The "new generation of supercomputers," as they have been dubbed, will make even the supercomputer which solved the sixty-nine digit puzzle look like a pocket calculator...
Consider the problem of the sixty-nine digit number. The Defense Department long ago created a coding system founded on eighty digit numbers. By breaking these numbers into their respective factors, the code will be broken. A new generation of superfast computers could break down such a code in a matter of hours...
Most candidates now use "random digit dialing," a computerized system, that makes calls arbitrarily. Spokesmen for all three candidates said poll responses are kept confidential...