Word: summing
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...same memory units that held data items, such as numbers or text, also held the step-by-step instructions that would allow the machine to be programmed to perform any task. Von Neumann persuaded the I.A.S.'s somewhat skeptical board of trustees to allocate $100,000--quite a sum in 1945--to build the MANIAC, the first in a series of early Von Neumann machines that included the JOHNNIAC (at Argonne National Laboratory) and the IBM 701, one of the progenitors of IBM's enormously profitable mainframe lines...
...light, which at the time usually meant gaslight but soon came to mean electric. It was a far more dependable and convenient way to work. In 1899 George Eastman, whose cameras and developing services would make photography a household activity, bought full rights to Velox for the then astonishing sum of $1 million...
...this dichotomy is false and potentially harmful. Boiling houses down to the sum of their tangible parts trivializes the more important intangible characteristics. Despite being situated further from the river, dedicated Quad intramural athletes still head down in droves to compete. Rooms in the Quad might be larger, but that doesn't mean residents won't make it out to the lawn on a spring day to picnic or play ball. Each hous, Quad or otherwise, has a unique character that transcends its mere physical constructs. A house's architecture might be grand, but a house's true grandeur comes...
...double-digit sum I will receive for my near-victory will be more than the $10 "Poindexter" stole from me in the eighth grade...
...return for a portion of a prospective reward, they ask their victim to help them deposit the sum in a bank--and then demand some form of collateral to "safeguard" the deposit...