 | | 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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