Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To illustrate the machine's speed, scientists at the Computation Laboratory say that Mark III can multiply two 16 digit numbers together over 1000 times faster than a man can even write down the 32 figures to be multiplied.
Formerly given over to tennis courts, and, from 1874 to 1893 the home of Harvard's first football teams, Jarvis Field broke out in a rash of temporary housing in 1946.
The "coding box" consists of a six by ton foot panel of over 200 keys, each with a number or mathematical symbol on it, Using the keyboard with its familiar symbols, a mathematician can record on a magnetic tape all the commands the machine needs to solve his problem. Essentially...
The adder and multiplier were largely the work of Charles Coolidge. Marshall Kinkaid was mainly responsible for the over-all design of the sequencing circuits. The input and output circuits were constructed by Richard Hofheimer.
A member of the first class over to graduate from Radcliffe, Mrs. Briggs had been living with her daughter during recent years.