Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly an hour he made passes at the island before he landed and slued to a halt. Photographer Silk crawled from the plane to shoot his pictures.* General Old, who had flown as copilot, trudged back up the plane's ski tracks in the 60°-below-zero cold. "I don't see how a man can live here," he told Fletcher when he had staggered back...
Asked if he felt that six months were a sufficient training period. Hershey said that "at the present time we have many people who are training zero. After we start with six months, I am willing to see it go further...
Cold Outside. Near Alice, N. D., after his creamery truck stalled in a blizzard, Ray Gillette comfortably sat out the 29°-below-zero storm in the insulated refrigerator compartment...
Even in the dead of winter, when temperatures drop 50° below zero, the search for oil continues on the Canadian prairies. Winter has actually speeded development in Northern Manitoba; a whole town is being moved overland by tractors and sleighs to the isolated site of a new nickel mine. Another town, Uranium City, is springing up in the far north of Saskatchewan near the shaft of a new uranium mine that will be the biggest in North America, and may be the richest in the world when it goes into production late this year. Meanwhile, Canada...
...binary computing machine is one which uses a number system based on the number one instead of ten. In such a system, there are only two digits, one and zero. Hence the number system, instead of going one, two, three, four, etc., goes one, ten, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000, 1001, etc. Thus eight in a number system based on ten is the same as 1000 in a number system based...