Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, the Orsi foundry announced that it would reopen with 80 workers, including all 30 of the ousted Communists. Everybody realized that, for the moment at least, Communist Galavotti had won the battle in the fog...
Around the machines drifts a dense fog of mathematics, a sort of intellectual tear gas to discomfort the nonmathematical. The machines speak and understand a special language of numbers. These are not "decimal," as ordinary numbers are, built on a base of ten with digits running from 0 to 9. They are "binary" numbers with a base of two, and have only two digits: 0 and 1. In this style of arithmetic, 0 is 0; 1 is i. But 2 is written...