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Nomogram
- elcritch 7y agoThese are actually still pretty handy though I didn't know their name! I used them in a chemistry class where various partial pressures were calculated and the various axis were included for O2, H2, etc. Nomogram's are often quicker than even looking up similar information on a computer. It seems sometimes we've lost the ability to quickly and intuitively solve problems without resorting to a computer. These graphical methods allow you to estimate results in your head using even a rough visual memory of the graph.
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- watersb 7y agoE-6B Flight Computer is a standard tool for avaition pilots. They don't require batteries (although you may need a flashlight to use one in the dark). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B
- deadgrandmajoke 7y agoNot many people know this, but this is also the expression used when your mother's mother passes away.
- dang 7y agoA great little thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8248473 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8248473
- uxp100 7y agoThey were commonly used in home-brewing as well, before being mostly replaced by dedicated software or spreadsheets.
- ncmncm 7y agoI am most impressed by the parallel-resistance / thin-lens calculation.
- flohofwoe 7y agoI first learned about Nomographs (that's what they were called there) in the Silent Hunter submarine simulations. The navigation map had one at the side to convert between time, distance and speed (know two of those, and quickly lookup the third value).
- Zardoz84 7y agoThe old Radio HAM book (70's edition) had a lot of it. I really like this kind of graphs for analog electronic calculations. It make everything far faster. and you not need highly precise calculations as components have always tolerances and standardized values.
- mikecsh 7y agoAlso used in medicine for determining management of paracetamol (acetaminophen) overdose.
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