After hearing of an adding machine built by Blaise Pascal, Leibniz set out to best him.
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Mr. Poxley leaned over and pressed the Clear button on his adding machine.
Big has gotten harder: Fusion power is infinitely more complicated than internal combustion, and a laptop computer inhabits a different universe from an adding machine.
We are not going to start, with a calculator and an adding machine, tracking down what people received from other sources, other funds, other help from relatives, savings.
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That's exactly the same price as the 12C, so come on, you HP and TI diehards -- duke it out and tell us which brand makes the better adding machine once and for all, won't you?
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"My guess is that the window for DNA computing will close fairly soon, " says Bernard Yurke , a researcher at Lucent's (nyse: LU - news - people) Bell Labs, who built a DNA adding machine.
The mobile world is still at early stages of expansion, and we are on our way as well to adding a trillion connected machine-to-machine devices.
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This creates a sort of government staffing perpetual motion machine, with agencies adding more and more headcount just to satisfy the demands of other government agencies.
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"It looked like a scene out of a movie, " said Curtis, adding that there were hooded men with machine guns.
Yes, adding a touch display would add weight to the already-substantial machine, but given that Windows 8 sports such a finger-friendly interface, the UX51Vz might feel like an incomplete version of the W8 experience.
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Adding 133 MHz (previously the fastest Powerbook ran at 667 MHz) will certainly make the machine seem a little snappier.
As technol advances, we must KEEP adding adding more wealth sharing in order to stabilize the inequality at fair levels that will allow the machine economy to grow, while at the same time, actually making life better for everyone, not just the rich.
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