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Subject:	Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun
Newsgroups:	lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date:	Sat, 25 Mar 2000 05:43:32 GMT
Reply-To:	mcambron@SAYNOTOSPAMpacbell.net
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Selçuk Göre wrote: > ravi wrote: > > > By the Way What is a slide rule??? > > > 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. That's what we used them for-- mainly logarithms as I recall (and I don't recall much!). Maggie

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		Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun
Maggie Cambron wrote in message (...) recall (...) You can also do multiplication and division (and addition and subtraction I think - don't remember what all scales are on the rule). Also roots and powers (in fact most calculators perform roots (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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