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Circular slide rules are still used today in aviation in the form of the E6B flight computer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi
by leetrout 6y ago
Circular slide rules are still used today in aviation in the form of the E6B flight computer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B
- ghaff 6y agoBack when slide rules were still widely used and even after calculators had recently come in, you also saw a lot of industry-specific cardboard sliding scales that were basically slide rules with different types of units.