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
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To: KarlInOhio
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. I know you intended that as a joke, but it took me back about 60 years when I spent a lot of time doing just that.
I donated my slide rule to a museum. Let my grandchildren see how we did it "back then."
57 posted on
05/06/2013 12:40:16 PM PDT by
JoeFromSidney
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