Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced inspections by the head resident will take place under the present arrangement. Should the cleaning problem prove severe when the maintenance staff makes its Christmas cleanup, however, announced inspections will be inaugurated...
...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, he "copies" his equations on the keys of the coding machine. When fed into the machine, his commands are then transferred from the magnetic tape to the sequence drum which then controls the operations necessary to solve the problem...
...means of the "coding box," an operator can feed a problem into Mark III in a fraction of the time required by Mark II and any other calculating machines in use at the present time. Very complex problems that used to take days and weeks to "code" for the machine can now be prepared almost as quickly as an operator can punch the keys...
Computations of the machine are checked at several points for possible errors. During the mathematical operations in the arithmetic section of Mark III, answers are double-checked at every stage in the problem before going on to the next stage. To insure that the final typed results are correct, all numbers are recorded twice on the magnetic tape by two parallel and independent systems. Unless both numbers on the tape are identical, the striking action of the type bars sets off an alarm and stops the typewriters...
Designing the student's room has been a key problem for the architects. After consulting student committees, they evolved a basic unit for the single room. A two-man suite consists of two single rooms next to each other, with or with-out a partition in the middle...