Word: quintillion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass of recorded experiments there are long series of trials in which the hits are much higher than chance expectation-seven, eight, even nine hits per 25 tries. According to his mathematics the probability that chance might account for one subject's score alone is one in 100 quintillion, and when all the scores are taken together the figures are so fantastic that chance is ruled out altogether. Dr. Rhine tried out a well-known British "medium,'' found that she scored well but not better than his best subjects, who were ordinary students (TIME...
...split by a reflecting .knife edge so that two beams fall on a photoelectric cell. If in the telescope the star image gets off the cross-wires, the two beams become unequal. The proper adjustment is then made by a mechanism in which the photoelectric current is amplified one quintillion times by a Zworykin electron multiplier...