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Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun
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lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:21:21 GMT
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sgore@+nospam+superonline.com
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ravi wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, James Powell writes:
> > > :-) Let it suffice to say that I grew
> > > up using a sliderule not a calculator.)
> >
> >
> > Ya well...I used one to finish grade 13 with...and I'm NOT old :). I did it
> > for the sillyness of not having a decent calculator...got quite good at using
> > it, but it fades fast.
> >
> > (I had a +-/* calculator, and the slide rule, and a book of engineering
> > tables...it worked just as well, and in fact is easier for some things, • because
> > the tables included the easiest way to do things such as triangles)
> >
> >
> >
> > Now, I have a _nice_ programmable calculator (TI-82) to do my math with, and • it
> > still takes about as long.
> >
> > James
>
> By the Way What is a slide rule???
> Ravi
Slide rule... Hmm... How can I explain?.. I saw one when I was in middle
school but never used one (There were Casio 3600Ps when I was a high
school student, and Casio 5000s during university) It's kind of a
computing tool for logarithms and such I think. Just look like a strange
ruler with some sliding parts by the way.
Maggie can explain this further I'm sure.
Selçuk
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