Word: digital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preoccupation of collecting works of art is probably more widespread at the present than it has been at any time before. Significant collections of modern art are numerous and continue to expand even at this period of five and six digit prices. Art has become popular and even if diamonds are still a girl's best friend, Picasso turns out to be just as sound an investment...
...page Manhattan telephone book-any figure, word, chemical or mathematical symbol-and work the information at the rate of 7,200 unerringly logical operations per second. In its vast computing units (2,500 electronic tubes, three miles of wire) it can multiply a pair of 127-digit numbers and arrive at a 254-digit answer in one-third of a second. In a second it can add 4,000 five-digit figures or do 160 equally complicated long divisions. And at the end, it can produce its answers in any of four ways-flash them on a TV-like screen...
...posted a six-digit random number every day for the last month throughout the University buildings, Stephen G. Brush and Paul E. Condon, Leverett House seniors who founded the society, said...
International Business Machines Corp. claimed last week that its newest electronic computer is the smartest built so far. Named NORC (Naval Ordnance Research Calculator) and soon to be delivered to the Navy, it takes only thirty-one millionths of a second to multiply two 13-digit numbers...
Coach Hal Ulen said Kiphuth--who was never one for holding his boys back--may try to keep the Crimson in single-digit figures. But, even if the Elis were to sweep every first place, which they may do, it is probable that the Crimson will score somewhere in the 'teens. Ulen's squad should pick up seconds in at least three events--the dive, the 100-yard free-style sprints, and the 200-yard breast-stroke--and there's an outside possibility for an upset in anyone of them...