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To: SeekAndFind

All computers are crap.

Bring back the slide rule!


20 posted on 05/06/2013 7:59:08 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus
Bring back the slide rule!

< smack with CRC Math Tables book >

Slide rules are for the weak. If you aren't interpolating logarithm tables by hand you might as well just be counting on your fingers.

26 posted on 05/06/2013 8:12:00 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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To: PetroniusMaximus
RE: Bring back the slide rule!

Your wish is my command:

29 posted on 05/06/2013 8:15:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: PetroniusMaximus
All computers are crap.

Bring back the slide rule!

Back so long ago that I didn’t own a calculator because they were expensive, I took a night course and routinely borrowed an HP-35 from work to do homework. One day I forgot to borrow the ’35, and decided to do the homework on my old (even then) slide rule.

. . . and then I tried to work out a decimal point!!! You completely forget what a royal pain in the posterior that used to be!


74 posted on 05/07/2013 6:52:49 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (“Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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