Word: digitals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slowdown is not always delay in the courts- the months or years it can take a case to come to trial. Too often the problem is delay in the law's enforcement-the interminable minutes it can take to reach the police. In an age of computers and digit dialing, it may be easier to phone "Hiya" to a pal in Addis Ababa than to call "Help" to a cop a few blocks away...
Numbers for Words. Binary notation uses only two digits. 1 (yes) and 0 (no). Each digit tells whether a given power of 2 is part of the number with which the computer is dealing (see diagram). Numerical information, such as figures from a payroll, can be easily translated into binary notation for storage in a computer's memory. Written English requires another step. Each letter of the alphabet, for example, might be assigned a decimal number (A=l, B = 2, C = 3, etc.). Whole words would be translated into decimal numbers, and the decimal numbers, in turn, translated into...
...pulses of electricity, but instead of recording simply the presence or absence of magnetism, the Sandia material responds differently to different amounts of electricity. Two pulses magnetize it twice as strongly as one pulse; three pulses do three times the job. The ceramic is so sensitive that any digit up to nine can be recorded on a single piece...
...more than a century of its existence, what has become the world's best-known address was not No. 10 Downing Street: it was No. 5. Only during one of its many restorations did the simple Georgian town house in London somehow double its digit. Under any number, it never seemed to foreigners to be pretentious enough for the hub of the British Empire. But most Englishmen insist that it be kept just the way it always has been...
...telephone company has bagged its biggest trophy. At 12:01 last Saturday, President Lyndon Johnson's NAtional 8-1414 phone number at the White House was changed clickety-zip to 456-1414. Said an anti-digit dialing partisan bitterly: "Prestigewise...