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I had a friend named Ned (we called him Ned the Nerd, and he loved it) who took to a slide rule like a duck to a pond.
One day he asked our algebra teacher if he could use his slide rule in class - we didn't have calculators - and she shrugged and said, "if you can figure out how to use it".
Ned would zip - zap - zada -- there's the answer! It really seemed like second nature to him, and he would get frustrated when we wouldn't allow him to try to teach us how simple it was.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostI had a friend named Ned (we called him Ned the Nerd, and he loved it) who took to a slide rule like a duck to a pond.
One day he asked our algebra teacher if he could use his slide rule in class - we didn't have calculators - and she shrugged and said, "if you can figure out how to use it".
Ned would zip - zap - zada -- there's the answer! It really seemed like second nature to him, and he would get frustrated when we wouldn't allow him to try to teach us how simple it was.Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
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Originally posted by Jedidiah View PostIt did seem to get simpler as you used it more, but HP and Reverse Polish Notation drove all that from my mind.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Post
You can even flip to the other side, and convert yards to feet, etc...The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostNow THAT is impressive!!!
You can even flip to the other side, and convert yards to feet, etc...
http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/index.html
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostThey have several different models:
http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/index.html
and INSTRUCTIONS!!!!
http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/s...y-example.htmlThe first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostYeah, been looking at that....
and INSTRUCTIONS!!!!
http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/s...y-example.html
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Not sure if it was Apollo 13, or The Right Stuff, or one of those space movies, but they actually had a guy (playing a flight engineer) sitting there doing the calculations on the slide rule real time, and he said he had to learn how to use it for real so it didn't look fake in the movie.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostNot sure if it was Apollo 13, or The Right Stuff, or one of those space movies, but they actually had a guy (playing a flight engineer) sitting there doing the calculations on the slide rule real time, and he said he had to learn how to use it for real so it didn't look fake in the movie.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostYeah it is kind of scary knowing what they used to get to the moon. The computer was a joke. The capsule was just a tin can, the lander was wrapped in mylar, the wiring was all done by hand.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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I think of this every time I hear "What a Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke.
I have never used a slide rule. Back in the day, I believe kids at my school learned to use them in 11th Grade (i.e. Junior year) Chemistry. Mine was the first class that did not, but instead used pocket calculators.
From what I've heard, at least in the early days, proficient users of slide-rules could outperform calculator-users.Geislerminian Antinomian Kenotic Charispneumaticostal Gender Mutualist-Egalitarian.
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Originally posted by Jedidiah View PostIt did seem to get simpler as you used it more, but HP and Reverse Polish Notation drove all that from my mind.Geislerminian Antinomian Kenotic Charispneumaticostal Gender Mutualist-Egalitarian.
Beige Federalist.
Nationalist Christian.
"Everybody is somebody's heretic."
Social Justice is usually the opposite of actual justice.
Proud member of the this space left blank community.
Would-be Grand Vizier of the Padishah Maxi-Super-Ultra-Hyper-Mega-MAGA King Trumpius Rex.
Justice for Ashli Babbitt!
Justice for Matthew Perna!
Arrest Ray Epps and his Fed bosses!
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Originally posted by NorrinRadd View PostI think of this every time I hear "What a Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke.
I have never used a slide rule. Back in the day, I believe kids at my school learned to use them in 11th Grade (i.e. Junior year) Chemistry. Mine was the first class that did not, but instead used pocket calculators.
From what I've heard, at least in the early days, proficient users of slide-rules could outperform calculator-users.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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