This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Through a "vertical" analysis, English and Russian variants of iambic pentameter are compared to Italian endecasillabo, a syllabic extreme of ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

A computer that uses ternary circuits comprising three stages rather than binary circuits, which operate in two. A ternary computer named Setun was built at the Moscow State University in 1958, and an ...