Word: one-fiftieth
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...latest PCs do not represent as great an advance over earlier computers as the first did over typewriters, or as typewriters did over writing by hand. Says Gordon: "I cannot type or think any faster than I did with my first personal computer in 1983, although it contained only one-fiftieth of the memory and operated at one-thirtieth the speed of my present model...
...problem with cell-phone users is that they often start conversations in places where there are no ushers available--in the passenger waiting-area before a plane is ready for boarding, for instance, where they're sitting 10 ft. from a pay phone that is one-fiftieth of the cost and doesn't make their conversation vulnerable to being taped by John and Alice Martin of Fort White, Florida, and published in the New York Times...
...complex device called an interferometer, which was used to measure the curve of the mirror's surface. They found that the instrument had been assembled incorrectly and that the mistake matched the error calculated by the other team: Hubble's main mirror was deformed by less than one-fiftieth the thickness of a human hair...
...freckled skin that reddens and burns easily, blisters and peels. Caucasians with dark hair and eyes and more even pigmentation, as well as Hispanics and Asians, are somewhat less susceptible, and blacks rarely develop either carcinomas or melanomas. The rate of melanoma among blacks, while increasing, is only one-fiftieth that of whites...
Commerce between the two nations is still relatively small. China sent the U.S. $1 billion in goods this year, while the U.S. shipped $3.5 billion to China. In contrast, American exports to Taiwan, which is about one-fiftieth the size of China, amounted to $3 billion in just the first eight months of this year. While businessmen and bureaucrats have been eying products and exchanging visiting cards at the shows, the traveling exhibit has so far resulted in disappointingly low sales...