Word: summed
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Bill Gates' full name is apparently William Gates III. And as we all know, he goes by Bill. According to the e-mail, if you convert the letters in "Bill Gates III" to their ASCII values and sum them, they equal 666, the biblical mark of the devil. (For those computer illiterates out there, ASCII codes are an international standard which assigns a number from 1-256 to each of the symbols on a standard keyboard...
...thousand, seven hundred dollars or $3,400 [proposed for the merit fund] is a piddly sum," said Robert B. Wolinsky '97, finance committee vice-chair. "What we should be doing is opening the grants process to these [larger] groups. If that comes at the expense of these smaller groups, that's a decision that we're going to have to make...
...difficult to know exactly what difference your letter is making," he says. "It's quite obvious that the sum total of Amnesty letters in all these cases is making an impact on world human rights...
Rudenstine wanted to bridge the gaps among the nine disparate and diverse schools, creating something greater than the sum of its parts...
...possibly faux) Tarantino: comically excessive, in-your-face violence; intricately coincidental but not entirely unpersuasive plotting; black humor; and, at the center of the story, a large sum of funny money and, more important, a sweetly loyal, ultimately all-conquering romance...