Inside the computer, every time a byte moves from one component to another the hardware performs a parity check by counting the number of ones. … But let's say a power surge or some other line noise is picked up by the computer and the byte is scrambled. … The errant byte, having failed the parity test, is unceremoniously dumped into the bit bucket, the computer's wastepaper basket.

Among, his other achievements, Matiyasevich and his colleague Boris Stechkin also developed an interesting “visual sieve” for prime numbers, which effectively “crosses out” all the composite numbers, leaving only the primes.

Yooo-hooo. Excuse me, dear. Had someone called security? Vanessa turned oh-so-casually to come face-to-face with Bailey Winter himself, the gaytastic designer […] and the host of the party she just happened to be crashing.

The Barble fishes, if one of them chance to be engaged, will set the line against their backes, and with a fin they have, toothed like a sharp saw, presently saw and fret the same asunder.