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(...) because (...) it (...) By the Way What is a slide rule??? Ravi (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's what we used them for-- mainly logarithms as I recall (and I don't recall much!). Maggie (24 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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