Weak On Square Roots
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Russell Burton wrote Weak on Square Roots, with pictures by Tom Beecham. Its headnote asks whether a wife calling her husband Pumpkinhead is an insult or a pet name, and whose pet name at that. Ronald Lovegear, fourteen years with Allied Electronix, rides a coach through dusk-darkened Jersey meadows, hugging his burden and cursing the engineer rocking the train. He holds a conviction that the throttle of the 5:10 bound for Philadelphia will someday be worked by an intelligent robot.
Lovegear has talked his superiors into lending him the company's most advanced mechanism yet for home work, by a little white lie that morning. Pascal, he told them, is a little weak on square roots, and that did it. Old Hardwick would never let an Allied computer reach the market unless it mastered square roots absolutely.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |