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	Tyranny of numbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Through the 1960s, computer engineers were faced with the problem of being unable to increase the performance of their designs due to the huge number of components involved.
		IC's are essentially a number of related components making up one particular function, what had previously been known in computer design as a "module".
		Seymore Cray was particularly well known for making complex designs work in spite of the tyranny of numbers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tyranny_of_numbers (440 words)

	The Tyranny of Numbers
		Numbers allow people to count things, without which there could be no concepts of possession or ownership, or time and space for that matter.
		He discovered the properties of numbers and that there were nine basic vibrations to them, and had full understanding that numbers had been corrupted and thereafter artificially imposed upon the Earth by the Demiurge.
		We should become more intuitive about the interplay of numbers instead of rigidly following what is being taught about or written in books on numerology, because some distortions are by evil design so most in their ignorance will follow the distortions and therefore not be able to perceive the tyranny of numbers.
	www.xeeatwelve.com /articles/tyranny.html (3456 words)

	Tyranny of Numbers - The Bulldog News - BulldogNews.net
		Girls keep close count of calories, the number of shoes they have and how many flowers there are in bouquets that boys give them.
		Numbers are eminently susceptible to rational analysis and manipulation.
		Numbers were security in the face of danger.
	www.bulldognews.net /tyranny_of_numbers.html (720 words)

	Statistics and Trace Evidence: The Tyranny of Numbers by Houck (Forensic Science Communications, October 1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The "tyranny of numbers," the trenchant belief that science is best expressed through mathematics, overshadows the potential explanatory power many disciplines have, simply because a mathematical value is expected but may not be possible.
		The tyranny of numbers is a consequence of an overreliance on deduction and mathematics, and these ultimately limit a discipline by requiring it to fit into a preordained model.
		The number of different fiber types found on any one textile, such as clothing, therefore, is potentially very large, making it impossible to track each type to its source or sources.
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/fbi/houck.htm (3904 words)

	No. 1215: The Tyranny of Large Numbers
		That's a sophisticated means for increasing the tax burden on people who aren't very swift with numbers -- and it's a strong reason for being math literate.
		The number of sodium-chloride molecules in a grain of salt is like a one followed by 19 zeros.
		Solidity is an illusion born of large numbers.
	www.uh.edu /admin/engines/epi1215.htm (676 words)

	Joel Mowbray: Terror & Tyranny, by the numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It is, however, a worthwhile exploration of the numbers of terror and tyranny.
		But the numbers not examined are the ones that would happen in the absence of war.
		The one set of numbers not available for analysis—the number of innocent Americans killed in a second 9/11 perpetrated with Saddam’s help—is probably the most important of all, precisely because there will never be such a number.
	www.townhall.com /columnists/joelmowbray/printjm20040329.shtml (685 words)

	O'Reilly Network Weblogs: Without Jack Kilby, Computers would have been Much Heavier
		The problem they solved was known as the "tyranny of numbers", and anyone who has done any work with hardware design, has soldered a complex circuit, or knows what a wire wrap tool is knows that "tyranny" is great word choice.
		The "tyranny of numbers" isn't taught it is experienced.
		Again, not really, no one would've been stupid enough to spend the time or the capital to build such a "tyranny of numbers", and, if they had, it would have had a mean time between failure of 2 seconds.
	www.oreillynet.com /lpt/wlg/7257 (741 words)

	The Tyranny of numbers
		The weakness of the book is that it is Hamlet without the prince; for there are virtually no numbers in it at all.
		This will, of course, add to its appeal for most readers and particularly the author’s fellow journalists, who are fond of proclaiming their own innumeracy.
		It makes one wonder whether the origins of the work lie in a fear of the numbers themselves and a desire to retreat into a vague, cosy mixture of environmentalism and the humanities.
	www.numberwatch.co.uk /tyranny.htm (500 words)

	Zeno of Elea [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		It is therefore, a definite number, and a definite number is a finite or limited number.
		The concepts of space, time, and motion have to be radically changed, and so do the mathematical concepts of line, number, measure, and sum of a series.
		The non-denumerable infinity of real numbers (and thus of points in space and of events in time) is much larger than the merely denumerable infinity of integers.
	www.iep.utm.edu /z/zenoelea.htm (2103 words)

	Growing rapidly and ageing rapidly, or the tyranny of numbers
		An indispensable and critical part of that knowledge consists of an understanding of the tyranny of numbers and a proper appreciation of the predictive value and limitations of descriptive statistical information.
		The number of people with diabetes is expected to double between 2000 and 2025 in Africa, the Americas, and in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Pacific, and it will treble in South-East Asia.
		Between 2000 and 2020, the number of elderly people with visual impairment is expected to increase from 100 to 180 million people and the number of those with hearing impairment from 80 to some 140 million [10].
	www.gfmer.ch /Books/bookmp/11.htm (3289 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Through the 1960s, computer engineering computer engineers were faced with the problem of being unable to increase the performance of their designs due to the huge number of components involved.
		In theory, every component needed to be wired to every other one, and were typically strung and soldering soldered by hand.
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Tyranny of numbers.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Tyranny_of_numbers.html (474 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Tyranny of Numbers by Nicholas Eberstadt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		...The Tyranny of Numbers closes with a warning that, if one projects forward from present population trends, an ever-larger share of humanity will be living under nondemocratic governments in the early 21st century...
		...For the CIA to have preferred statistical data to the ordinary evidence of the senses was, in fairness, only natural: as Eberstadt writes in The Tyranny of Numbers, "the modern state is an edifice built on numbers...
		...In The Tyranny of Numbers, a collection of essays most of which have been published previously, Eberstadt ferrets out the misleading numbers that have fed public misconceptions, distorted intellectual discourse, and degraded the quality of government policy-making...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V100I6P67-1.htm (997 words)

	The New Tyranny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This problem, which was commonly described as the "Tyranny of Numbers," derived from the fact that engineers could assemble only so many circuit components in one physical space while keeping the equipment in question viable.
		Kilby's brilliant insight was to make the components smaller and construct them of the same material (at first germanium, later silicon) so that they could form a completed circuit on a horizontal plane.
		In a sense, a new tyranny of numbers is overshadowing information-driven organizations circa 2000.
	www.intelligententerprise.com /001205/print/editpage.htm (533 words)

	The History of the Integrated Circuit
		Engineers soon realized that manually assembling the vast number of tiny components needed in, for example, a computer would be impossible, especially without generating a single faulty connection.
		This problem was known as the tyranny of numbers.
		The wafers are then polished in a number of steps until their surface has a perfect mirror-like finish.
	www.nobel.se /physics/educational/integrated_circuit/history/index.html (2354 words)

	EH.Net Encyclopedia: The Economic History of Korea
		Life expectancy increased to 43 years at the end of the colonial period.
		Male mean stature was slightly higher than 160 centimeters at the end of the 1920s, a number not significantly different from the Chinese or Japanese height, and appeared to become shorter during the latter half of the colonial period.
		With the end of the Second World War in 1945, two separate regimes emerged on the Korean peninsula to replace the colonial government.
	www.eh.net /encyclopedia/?article=cha.korea (3202 words)

	Quake Group - Projects
		In the first part of the 20th century, engineers faced a problem commonly called the “Tyranny of Numbers”: there is a practical limit to the complexity of macroscopically assembled systems.
		In the late 1950s Kilby and Noyce solved the “Tyranny of Numbers” problem for electronics by inventing the integrated circuit.
		Besides the expected economies of scale that accompany the miniaturization and parallelization inherent in these devices, there have also been unexpected discoveries about how the unique physics of fluids in small dimensions can be used to achieve performance that is impossible with benchtop laboratory devices (7,8).
	thebigone.stanford.edu /projects.htm (1074 words)

	Playing by numbers \| August 08, 2001 \| Ralph Nader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Corporations have already found the era of "numbers first" useful in their battles against regulations, including those involving public health, safety, and environmental protections.
		Boyle says that while the modern world tries to measure everything, the hard fact is that "only when laboratory conditions are precise can you ever get anything like precision." And he argues that "laboratory precision" is never possible on important issues involving people, such as education, economics, health, or voting.
		The book is as entertaining (and funny) as it is serious about the shortcomings and tyranny of numbers, public-opinion polls, testing, marketing surveys, and cost-benefit analyses.
	www.sfbg.com /nader/160.html (763 words)

	The Independent (London, England) : The Art: Why the numbers don't add up; Are we over-fond of quantifying everything ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		On being asked whether he had enjoyed this masterpiece of evil and corruption, his answer was short, sharp and reductive: there had been 5,202 steps during the dances and 12,445 words spoken by the actors.
		As an illiterate labourer who had been catapulted into polite society because his swift mathematical mind made him the Carol Vorderman of his time, his criticism by numbers was in one way far from surprising.
		But although his answer was impressively correct, it also raises obvious questions about the absurdity of a brain so numerically restricted that it had failed to grasp the significance of this disturbing mirror of human nature.
	static.highbeam.com /t/theindependentlondonengland/january122001/theartwhythenumbersdontaddupareweoverfondofquantif/index.html (383 words)

	Amazon API Demo - Books - The Sum of Our Discontent: Why Numbers Make Us Irrational - Chris Codes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		But while the issue is there and it's waiting for someone to pick it apart and expose it for the big travesty we've made out of it, Boyle (the author) instead delivers a dull, borderline pulseless book, that demands a very dear effort from the reader.
		David Boyle does make clear, albeit tiresomely, that numbers and counting have only contributed to making us further unhappy and are simply adding to more confusion, added manipulation from politicians and corporations and the lengthening of our illusions as we try to solve problems by measuring and countermeasuring them.
		There's an issue in there somewhere (about this you'll feel certain) but the irony is that "Tyranny in numbers" almost challenges you to write another book yourself and actually propose something.
	www.chriscodes.com /store/detail/books/related_result/Book/1587990601 (658 words)

	Observer \| The tyranny of numbers
		The recent party political broadcasts by Labour and the Tories for the local elections were overwhelmingly statistical, each of them convincing in isolation, but incomprehensible when placed against one another.
		Finally, in human terms, we can only make an audit culture successful if we remember that life is lived between the numbers, not through them.
		It is not likely that Thomas Gradgrind was able to listen to the Today programme last week, first because he dates from April 1854, not April 2000 and second, because he is a fictitious schoolmaster dreamt up by Charles Dickens.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3986852-102276,00.html (1247 words)

	Numbers :: Chelsea Green Publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Numbers can unlock secrets, split atoms, reveal the inner workings of people and machines, or draw patterns of jaw-dropping complexity and beauty.
		Number of people who could be provided with sources of clean drinking water per year for the cost of a submarine: 60 million
		Number of miles driven by the average American car before it emits its own weight in carbon dioxide: 10,000
	www.chelseagreen.com /2004/items/numbers (387 words)

	EETimes.com - The tyranny of numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Indeed, the tyranny of numbers is alive and well in our industry.
		I think the company managed to push the number all the way up to 256 — not bad for 24-bit audio on a 16-bit bus.
		Yes, the tyranny of numbers is alive and well.
	v2.eetimes.com /op/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18310543&printable=true (394 words)

	Christ's College - College Information
		The gloss placed on the decline in numbers clearly suffers from the Dolly Parton Syndrome: a large figure, blown-up out of all proportion, with no visible means of support.
		But the power of religion lies in its capacity to influence society, not just in the number of punters turning out on Sunday.
		In doing so, it is vital that `the numbers game' is exposed for what it is. Some of the most effective churches I know are actually tiny congregations.
	www.christs.cam.ac.uk /info/chapel/sermons/numbers.html (639 words)

	Legarda raps 'tyranny ... - Jun. 13, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		"My hopes are dimming on the fairness of the canvass" because "we know that it is the tyranny of the majority" that rules in Congress, she told reporters on Friday.
		Asked if she meant that she did not believe she and Poe would be declared the winners, Legarda replied: "It is difficult to say, I don't want to prejudge the results of the canvass...
		Legarda was in Negros Occidental province on Friday to attend the 8th Charter Day anniversary celebration of Sagay City and the oath-taking of its elected officials led by Mayor Fortunato Javelosa.
	www.inq7.net /nat/2004/jun/13/text/nat_8-1-p.htm (434 words)

	The new tyranny of numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Since the circuits were soldered by hand, the chances of a flaw in a circuit increased with the number of transistors.
		This problem, called the "tyranny of numbers," brought electronics to a standstill in the '50s.
		Nowadays, we have a new tyranny of numbers for hardware.
	www.computeruser.com /articles/2103,3,1,1,0301,02.html (1283 words)

	Aristotle -- General Introduction [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		To get at a true definition we must find out those qualities within the genus which taken separately are wider than the subject to be defined, but taken together are precisely equal to it.
		For example, "prime" "odd" and "number" are each wider than "triplet" (i.e., a collection of any three items, such as three rocks); but taken together they are just equal to it.
		Further, to suppose that we know particular things better by adding on their general conceptions of their forms, is about as absurd as to imagine that we can count numbers better by multiplying them.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/a/aristotl.htm (7053 words)

	Centre for Human Relations and Community Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Issues of formal structure, informal culture and working norms clearly can help or limit the ability of staff at all levels to perform to the standards of excellence which are being demanded of the modem organization.
		This is particularly true when large numbers of employees are professionally trained, highly educated, and motivated to achieve personal standards of excellence.
		In such settings, traditional hierarchical organizations managed by fiat do not generate the energy and enthusiasm required to perform at high levels and to sustain organizational commitment.
	artsci-ccwin.concordia.ca /apss/phase.htm (523 words)

	:: Newsroom Barkada ::
		The report added that the number of children in primary school hovers above 80 percent, with 19 countries of the 63-member ADB achieving the target of universal primary education.
		Cutting down child mortality remains bleak for the region as half of Asia-Pacific countries are off-pace to reduce the under-5 mortality rate by two-thirds.
		The region is not on track to halt and reverse the AIDS epidemic as the prevalence among Asians aged 15 to 49 rose from 0.39 percent to 0.45 percent, the report said, adding that over 9 million Asians live with HIV/AIDS and half a million of them die every year.
	newsroom-barkada.blogspot.com (1698 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Tyranny of Numbers: Why Counting Can't Make Us Happy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The 1988 film Drowning by Numbers contains a scene where a boy is asked why he is counting the hairs on his dog.
		The Tyranny of Numbers considers how life could be different if only we'd spend more time validating our intuition and questioning the usefulness of our facts and figures.
		David Boyle's easy to read narrative style adds wit and interest, with his characteristic mix of cameo biographies, commonsense philosophy and, of course, his own selection of numerical data...
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0006531997 (1369 words)

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