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In slide-rule world this did not happen. Slide rule gave you 3 numbers, but you were not always sure of the tailing zeros, so you checked the sanity of the scal
by timonoko 7y ago
In slide-rule world this did not happen. Slide rule gave you 3 numbers, but you were not always sure of the tailing zeros, so you checked the sanity of the scale all the time.
- masklinn 7y ago> In slide-rule world this did not happen. Of course it did, you just didn't hear about it because either it wasn't publicised at all, or there wasn't enough tracking to find out where the error had originally been introduced, or nobody shifted through literal tons of papers to find out, or if they did there was no internet and it'd only appeared as a note on page 7 in the "journal of overweight submarines", circulation 500 copies. This sort of errors is pretty much why double-entry bookkeeping was invented.