Word: digit
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...bother reaching for your calculator. To turn this 100-digit monster into its indivisible primes -- as in reducing 15 to the product of 3 and 5 -- would ordinarily require the undivided attention of a supercomputer for as long as two months. But last week the record-size problem was solved after just 26 days by a group of more than 50 smaller machines scattered across the U.S., Europe and Australia...
...YORK--George Bush led Michael Dukakis in two presidential polls by a significant but single-digit margin Wednesday, a considerably smaller advantage than the Republican enjoyed in a survey earlier this week...
...basketball team is looking to finishing close to the top of the Ivy standings. The Crimson reached the double-digit mark in victories for the first time since 1984-'85. Harvard will get help from Ron Mitchell of Locust Valley, N.Y., Eric Carter of Lino Lakes, Minn., Mine Minor of Lynnfield, Mass. and Steve Brown of Eugene, Ore. The cagers will also get the help of Fred Schnernecker, who is returning to the Crimson after taking a year...
...basketball team is looking to finish close to the top of the Ivy standings. The Crimson reached the double-digit mark in victories for the first time since 1984-1985. Harvard will get help from Ron Mitchell of Locust Valley, N.Y., Eric Carter of Lino Lakes, Minn., Mine Minor of Lynnfield, Mass. and Steve Brown of Eugene, Ore. The cagers will also get the help of Fred Schnernecker, who is returning to the Crimson after taking a year...
...prices leaping again, even though inflation in the rest of the economy remains at tolerable levels. The Government said last week that during July the Consumer Price Index rose 0.4%, an annual rate of 5.2%. But the subindex for food and beverages jumped 0.9%, raising the possibility of double-digit inflation at the supermarket. Among the hardest hit in July: fruits and vegetables (4.7%), poultry (7.4%) and eggs (9.6%). Prices for many meat and dairy products are rising because the cost of animal feed has gone...