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Approximate lines of code needed to solve assignment four (a program that plays hangman) in Computer Science 106A: 300

Stanford computer science graduate students in 2005-2006: 422

Number of those graduate students who are women: 47

Weight, in pounds, of the 1953 IBM Type 650 console unit, power supply, and card read-punch unit: 6,233

Weight, in pounds, of IBM’s 2006 Lenovo ThinkPad X60: 3.19

Year the first documented bug, a moth, was found in a computer: 1947

Sources: Stanford computer science department; Office of the University Registrar 2005-2006 enrollment statistics; Columbia University Computing History; IBM; National Museum of American History.

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