Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GATES urged them to reject a $1 billion cut in the program's budget. Senators described the $1 billion slash as a 5% cut. If 5% of the budget is $1 billion, the program's budget must be $20 billion. Intelligence officials, with a wink, confirm the figure. Basic math skills + common sense = government secrets revealed...
...stock market, which, like a biological system, involves constant adaptation to change by individual participants. After playing with computer models, Farmer decided it was time for a reality test of the theory. He and several partners founded Prediction Co., an Albuquerque, New Mexico, investment firm that uses math to try to beat the financial markets. Says Farmer: "If I can be right 55% of the time, that's enough to make plenty of money." In dry runs the company has done even better. Armed with an undisclosed amount of venture capital, Prediction Co. has begun trading for real...
Students use their computer accounts to access programs and information and often need to use the computers to complete work for science or math classes. The accounts store the work that they do and allow them access to facilities such as e-mail...
...head section leader Brian J. Hall '86 attributed the continuing popularity of the course to its accessibility. "Ec 10 should not just be for math jocks or Ec concentrators," Hall said. "If you're interested in world events, you're interested...
...visit to a gritty inner-city school that would have given Barbara Bush a run for her photo op. Looking not at all powerful sitting at a child-size desk, she leaned her head on her hand like any middle schooler perplexed by long division and confided that math "was hard" for her too. She rewarded the winner of multiplication bingo with two stickers on his forehead and a kiss in between...