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Depending upon his own system of mental arithmetic he learned to obtain accurate results just as quickly as Mr. Zerah Colburn, a noted calculator of that day, who tested the Negro mathematician.
Wellington was the Barême of war, Napoleon was its Michelangelo, and this true genius was conquered by calculation. On both sides somebody was expected; and it was the exact calculator who succeeded. Napoleon waited for Grouchy, who did not come; Wellington waited for Blücher, and he came.
Opposition was silent; tranquillity everywhere prevailed. Caesar went as he was wont towards the end of the year over the Alps, that through the winter he might observe more closely the daily-increasing complications in the capital. Second Insurrection The sagacious calculator had on this occasion miscalculated. The fire was smothered, but not extinguished.
To arrive at the number by chance, he said, was to lose himself in millions of combinations, which would absorb the life of a first-rate calculator. But if he could in no respect reckon on chance, was it impossible to proceed by reasoning? Decidedly not! And so it was "to reason till he became unreasoning" that Judge Jarriquez gave himself up after vainly seeking repose in a few hours of sleep.
A calculator without the least emotion, who considers the mind of man the essential in war because it is this mind that makes war he surely sees better than anybody else a profound change in the exterior conditions of war which he must consider. But the spiritual conditions which are produced in war have not changed. Such, is the eternal mind of man raised to its highest power by discipline.
Unless the calculator was prepared to be instantly overwhelmed by physical force and mental complexity, he must stop there. Thus, taking the year 1900 as the starting point for carrying back the series, nothing was easier than to assume a ten-year period of retardation as far back as 1820, but beyond that point the statistician failed, and only the mathematician could help.
But, with each new ideal that comes into life, the chance for a life based on some old ideal will vanish; and he would needs be a presumptuous calculator who should with confidence say that the total sum of significances is positively and absolutely greater at any one epoch than at any other of the world.
He now had a little data upon which to work, and his fingers were flying over the keys of the calculator. "Back blast, maximum, seventeen seconds!" he directed, crisply. "Not exact, of course, but that'll put us close enough to find 'em with our detectors!" Then for the calculated seventeen seconds the super-ship retraced her path, at the same awful speed with which she had come so far.
Gwenlyn said, "Four days, three hours and some odd minutes " "True," said Morgan. "Let's get at it. Captain Bors, have you ever heard of a lightning calculator a person who can do complicated sums in his head as fast as he can hear or read the numbers involved?" "Yes," said Bors. "It's quite phenomenal, I believe." "It's a form of genius," said Morgan.
He wished to speak to the different persons there, but it was easy to see that his mind was absent. He jumbled different accounts together, which was taken advantage of by some of the noblemen who had retained those habits since the time of Monsieur Mazarin who had a poor memory, but was a good calculator.
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