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...decimal system, each digit of a number read from right to left is understood to be multiplied by a progressively higher power of 10. Thus the number 4,932 consists of 2 multiplied by 1, plus 3 multiplied by 10, plus 9 multiplied by 10 X 10, plus 4 multiplied by 10 x 10 X 10. In the binary system, each digit of a number, again read from right to left, is multiplied by a progressively higher power of 2. Thus the binary number 11010 equals 0 times 1, plus 1 times 2, plus 0 times 2X2, plus 1 times...
...which is designed to add two Is, a 1 and a 0, or two 0s (see diagram). If other half-adders are linked to the circuit, producing a series of what computer designers call full adders, the additions can be carried over to other columns for tallying up ever higher numbers. Indeed, by using only addition, the computer can perform the three other arithmetic functions. Multiplication is often accomplished by repeated additions, division by repeated subtractions. Subtraction, on the other hand, can be done by an old trick known in the decimal system as "casting out nines"- taking the nines...
...Commerce Interagency Task Force report issued last November, "The law of product liability has become filled with uncertainties, creating a lottery for both insurance rate makers and injured parties." Although the average cost of product liability insurance is now 1% of sales, the rate is more than ten times higher for some small manufacturers of high-risk products, such as trampolines, air rifles and football equipment. An increasing number of companies are "going bare," dropping coverage altogether...
...economic pressure, several insurance firms began an aggressive public relations campaign, including up to $10 million worth of hard-hitting "advocacy advertisements" in publications such as TIME, Wall Street Journal and New Republic. The ads point to "windfall awards" and suggest that jurors must eventually pay for them through higher premiums...
...heavily dependent on natural gas; they therefore demand that a federal lid be kept on gas prices. Democrat Henry Jackson, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has been struggling for more than a month to cobble together a compromise deal featuring phased-in decontrol and higher controlled prices in the meantime, but so far he has been unable to find majority support among his Senate colleagues on the joint committee for any formula...