Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What about timing? Can the mathematician, with the help of large-scale computers, help us to make intelligent choices and avoid alternate periods of boom and bust? Computers can, Waugh said, to the extent that they will help us to foresee the probable results of the various economic policies up for consideration...
...typical problem in education would appear like this: We are given letter grades in four coursed for a certain number of individuals. We would like to pool these letter grades to form a scale of scholastic achievement. Since the distribution of grades in the several courses are quite different, even more variable must be considered in the problem...
...upper three floors are considerably different from their supporting story, but they are identical to one another. The rooms open onto central T-shaped corridors, which need only be followed past the three-way, full length mirror to the nearest corner for the latest in large scale bathroom facilities. In the center of each floor is the smoking room and adjoining it is a kitchenette for morning coffee and lazy Sunday breakfasts...
Over 600 physicists, mathematicians, economists, engineers, and industrialists from all parts of the country and abroad attended the four-day Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machines at the Computation Laboratory and observed the first public demonstration of this device. The machine will be used by the United States Navy Bureau of Ordnance...
...Association has found it difficult, however, to collaborate with other national student groups. "Since our country is still under some control," the Association reports, "our program is obliged to be limited to a small scale so far as international activities are concerned. We have held twice a Japanese American Student Conference since the War, but the delegation of American side was to be from the occupation personnels...