She scrawled the main points onto her notepad

‘Back-dam’ and ‘sea-dam’ are the local names given to the shorter sides of the rectangle [i.e., a field]. The ‘back-dam’ is the dam away from the sea-coast, the ‘sea-dam’ is that which is nearest to it.

Add up the prices and find out how much it will cost.

With memory that slow, the processor is going to spend most of its time on wait states.