On Friday 10 March 2006 22:16, Jon Ingason wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 09 March 2006 22:22, jludwig wrote: > >>Do any of you remember what a slide rule is? > > > > Do you mean my straight one or the circular one? > > > > Anne > > I have straight one. And then I have paper, pencil and the "Handbook of > Mathematical Functions with formulas, graphs. and mathematical tables" > edited by Milton Abramowitz and Irene A. Stegun. ;-) Worked for me. > I do have both straight and circular, packed away, but in truth I was never very adept with either. They belonged to my husband, and he was the one that used them regularly. Confession over :-) OTOH, when I got a book of X-Number Puzzles - crossword type, with cryptic clues needing mathematical solutions, I could do them, slowly, admittedly, without the need for calculator. Anne
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