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Maggie Cambron wrote in message
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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!).
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 and powers using logarithmic
math). Probably a few other things I can't think of.
Frank
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