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I feel like being gen x i might have been part of the first wave of kids never to learn to use a slide rule. I'm actually not even totally clear on what they ar

I feel like being gen x i might have been part of the first wave of kids never to learn to use a slide rule. I'm actually not even totally clear on what they are even for. I am really digging some of the other mechanical calculators in the collections though. Always love to see a curta.

BoiledCabbage 3y ago
> I'm actually not even totally clear on what they are even for. The same way you can pick a point on amap, measure a certain distance away on the map and "automatically" know how far away to locations are in really life - you can pick a number on a side rule, move a certain distance away and it will "automatically" multiply or divide two numbers. It will have a small amount of error in it, the same way measuring distance on a map will have a small amount of error in it.