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Why's he going on about slide-rules?
by denton-scratch 4y ago
Why's he going on about slide-rules?
- thanatropism 4y agoStylistic flair.
- h2odragon 4y agogood shorthand for "the time before computers, when math was done with meat and dinosaurs roamed the earth"
- denton-scratch 4y agoOh, OK. I couldn't see what approximate calculations using logarithms had to do with random integers. Also, I learned to use a slide-rule in the sixties; I 've never touched one again until I inherited an antique, a few years ago. Nobody was using slide-rules in the seventies, surely.