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...method, devised by the AHA and Paul W. Holland, lecturer on statistics, utilizes a 700 page book of five digit random numbers. A page and column are selected from the book, and the sequence of numbers is matched to an alphabetical list of the candidates. The candidates are listed on the ballot from lowest number to highest...
Each student is assigned a four-digit number that is recorded in classrooms by the teacher and fed into a computer, which checks the roll call and notifies the principal of any absentees. "Then we find him real quick," says Schimandle. "When kids are out of class, they're usually in trouble...
...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...