Word: one-fiftieth
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Plugging Them In. Some companies have discovered that time sharing has reduced to one-fiftieth the time needed to answer a problem, have found access to a large computer more profitable than ownership of a small or medium-sized machine. The Massachusetts In stitute of Technology, one of the pioneers in time sharing, now has 400 users for its IBM 7094 computer, has served scientists as far away as Nor way and Argentina. Experts predict that by 1970 time sharing will account for at least half of an estimated $5 billion computer business, will be used as widely and easily...
...small amount of solvent exploded and blew open the door of a processing cell at the AEC's Oak Ridge laboratory. About one-fiftieth of an ounce of plutonium was scattered into the air. Last week the AEC reported on what it took to tidy up this minor atomic mishap...
...Milton M. Cahn and Fred R. Shechter admit, in the A.M.A. Journal, that they also might have failed to solve the mystery, but they happened to see something moving on the patient's skin. It proved to be an eight-legged critter, little more than one-fiftieth of an inch long, later identified as the northern fowl mite (Ornithonyssus sylviarum). The black dots Mrs. T. had noticed proved to be the mites' droppings. Evidently the mites caused the itching, and the fact that Mrs. T.'s husband, a clothing salesman, was not affected, though he slept...
...Proof. Astronomer Struve believes that about one-fiftieth of these planets have had conditions on their surfaces that were favorable for the appearance of life. Assuming that life appears whenever conditions are right, Struve calculates that one billion (one-fiftieth) of the galaxy's 50 billion planets have life of some sort on them now. Not all life is thinking life, but Struve figures that between 1,000,000 and 10 million of the galaxy's billion inhabited planets have creatures on them that are just as intelligent as present day earthlings...
Electronic equipment to flash to earth data on such matters as cosmic rays and gravitational pull will account for 80% of the weight. The skin of the hollow ball will be one-fiftieth of an inch thick. Jutting from the sphere's surface will be four collapsible antennas and a coupling device that will release the moon from the last of the three rockets needed to blast it into space (TIME...