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| Peace through superior firepower  |
I ran across my K&E slide rule today. I vaguely remember how to use it. Anyone else? ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | ||
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Spread the Disease |
Never used one. I'm 33. I'd be curious to see one used, though. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Same. I do remember learning to use a basic wooden abacus in elementary school math class (2nd or 3rd grade, maybe?), to help us visualize numbers. | |||
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It's in the drawer with my analog clock.............. Give one to a millennial and watch their head explode "No matter where you go - there you are" | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Yep. Used one in high school for a time. couldn't afford a calculator. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Drug Dealer |
I've still got my K&E and I remember how to use it. You haven't lived until you've tried to get three significant digits out of one of them fuckers after being up the night before drinking coffee. When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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is circumspective |
I haven't used one for many years. Though I'm sure I still have mine in my desk drawer at home. "We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." | |||
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When I was a kid my grandfather was teaching me to use one to multiply. That didn't get too far. That was in the 1970's. He graduated from MIT in 1912. | |||
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I never used one for math class, but did when I started flying back in the 80s. The pilot's "Whiz Wheel" is basically circular slide rule. | |||
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Optimistic Cynic |
I've still got mine kicking around here somewhere. Last time I looked at it, I could still do multiplication, but have forgotten the more complicated tricks. | |||
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Member |
Yep. I carried a Dietzgen for 4 years in engineering school (Miss State). Don't use the belt clip; you'll be ridiculed. | |||
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Yes, still have my K&E and still know how to use it. | |||
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secure the Blessings of Liberty |
I had one of the log log decitrig models. I have no idea where it is and wouldn't remember how to use it if I found it. | |||
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| Drug Dealer |
I attached a leather bootlace to the bottom end of the case and tied it to my thigh (for quick calculations).  When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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Age Quod Agis |
I could do simple math in my youth, but I have no idea how to do it now. My father has a couple of very nice ones. He was a machinist, and turns 90 this weekend. He had all of those skills back in the day. I'm not sure he remembers how to use it any more either. Sharp as a tack, but adopted calculators as soon as he could get his hands on one. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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| wishing we were congress |
You made me go looking for my old K&E. Couldn't find it. Can't remember the last time I laid eyes on it. I would have to refresh on how to use it. For those who want their brains to hurt: http://sliderulemuseum.com/SR_Course.htm In middle school (a bit ago) a teacher had a huge slide rule mounted over the black board. About 10 feet long and a foot or two wide. The parts moved and he would set up the "big" slide rule to show various calculations. I lost track of that old decimal point a lot. | |||
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I lost mine years ago, but I think I could still work one with a little practice. -------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18 | |||
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Mensch |
Almost 50 and I have no idea. I can't math... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
I learned how to use one as a kid and they taught that in class in high school. We also were taught typing on ribbon typewriters and carbon paper. The real trick is to have enough of an understanding to know where the decimal point goes. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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| Knows too little about too much  |
Yep. Undergrad physics. Gave mine to my engineer son for shits and giggles. RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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