 | | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —James Powell
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| | | (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —Ravi Mohan
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| | | | | (...) because (...) it (...) By the Way What is a slide rule??? Ravi (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | | | (...) 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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| | | | | | | | | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —Maggie Cambron
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| | | | | | | | (...) That's what we used them for-- mainly logarithms as I recall (and I don't recall much!). Maggie (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 —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | 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 —Sheree Rosenkrantz
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| | | | | | ravi <helixwolf2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FrxC2L.H87@lugnet.com... (...) it (...) using (...) and (...) A sliderule is an instrument used for calculations/operations including multiplication, division, extraction of square roots as (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | (canceled) —Ravi Mohan
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| | | | | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | (...) I had a Casio 3600p during high school and a Casio 5000 during university and was very happy with the latter especially. It was a very efficient engineering student tool, AFAIK. It has built in matrix math capability up to 5x5 (including (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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