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Neat! I’ve looked on amazon and eBay where I could buy a slide rule but haven’t been able to find one. One of my professors told the class that he had a teacher
by thealienthing 6y ago
Neat! I’ve looked on amazon and eBay where I could buy a slide rule but haven’t been able to find one. One of my professors told the class that he had a teacher who would challenge any of his students to run any calculation on a handheld calculator before he could do it on a slide rule. The students could never beat him even with long complicated equations. Found that fascinating.
- yodon 6y agoThere is a similar story in one of Feynman's books of him doing high precision mental math faster than an abacus expert could do the calculations.
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- opwieurposiu 6y agoI have a few slide rules. My favorite type is the one with instructions on the back. Very useful if you only use them once every few years. If you get one of the fancy ones with dozens of scales it may be harder to use.