Word: digitals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TELEPHONES could once be activated by merely speaking the number with eyes closed, then had to be worked by coordinating eye and forefinger, and now, with the advent of all-digit dialing, demand intellectual concentration as well. But wait. A device called Dial-A-Word has come to the rescue. A plastic disk that slips over a dial gives a choice of two consonants for every number, which can then be combined with vowels (which are placed so that they don't register) to translate any combination of digits into an easily remembered phrase. Thus the number...
...idea of number as a common property of the sets; then the child can move on to grasp the symbolism of numbers expressed as numerals. He sees that for convenience the first ten symbols may be recombined for numbers greater than nine. He may also learn that each digit (say in 326) has a "place value" ten times that of its neighbor to the right (three hundreds, two tens, six ones). He discovers the wonder of that great ancient invention, zero, the "place holder" that allows infinite expansions (606 would be simply 66 without...
...fingers. With eight fingers, he might have invented a base-eight number system. Many children now explore the base-two (binary) system, used in computers, which depends only on 0 and 1 . They alarm parents with the news, for example, that seven is not 7 but 111, each digit is twice the one to the right: one 4, one 2, one 1, adding up to 7, each digit is twice the one to the right; one 4, one 2, one 1, adding up to 7. Similarly, 5 is 101 (one 4, no 2s, one 1). Once they are well grounded...
...Western-style dress to give his State-of-the-Union message to Congress, President Johnson urges that the moon be renamed "Kennedy" and then invites all legislators and their wives to a "real slambang" pit barbecue on the White House Lawn. The Bell Telephone Company announces that five-digit postal ZIP codes will be substituted for three-digit area codes "in order to lessen the number of codes a person must remember...
...York Telephone Co. is previewing a new "TouchTone" phone, which replaces the familiar dial with a bank of ten buttons. A seven-digit number (providing one can remember it) may be punched out in an estimated two to five seconds, compared with an average ten seconds for dialing...