Word: talled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...described as being Black, about5'5" tall, and of thin build, with short curlyblack hair and a light complexion...
...company founders did more than stack three units on top of one another and paint them the same color, however. Their machine, which stands under four feet tall, was invented to use no more power than a compact refrigerator...
...class or set is not a matter of degree. Either a number is even, or it is not. But this on-or-off, black-or- white, 0-or-1 approach falls apart when applied to many everyday classifications, like the set of beautiful women, the set of tall men or the set of very cold days...
...deal with such cases, Zadeh proposed that membership in a set be measured not as a 0 or a 1, but as a value between 0 and 1. Thus, in the set of tall men, George Bush (6 ft. 2 in.) might have a membership value of 0.7, while Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (7 ft. 2 in.) might have a 0.99. Zadeh and his students went on to elaborate a full fuzzy mathematics, devising precise rules for combining vague expressions like "somewhat fast," "very hot" and "usually wrong...
Administrators say the plan, revealed last tall would lessen the faculty office space crunch and provide a focus for undergraduate life, although some students remain skeptical...