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How many of you know how to use a slide rule? Anonymous Thu Jun 30 11:35:19 2022 No.14614136 [Reply] [Original]

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 11:41:41 2022 No.14614143 >>14614136 I do because they used to teach it in chem labs until not too long ago and I took one chem lab class in college

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 12:38:12 2022 No.14614236 https://www.sliderules.org/

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 17:22:21 2022 No.14615150 >>14614136 I do because long story, tldr I'm old.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 18:06:42 2022 No.14615329 >>14614136 I do, because it's based and doesn't make you forget instantly what your input was (like with calculators) But most of the time I have to do mental math since I'm at a lab and I can't touch anything

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 18:07:44 2022 No.14615331 File: 139 KB, 740x1064, SpankedWithSlideRule_NationalLampoonArtPosterBook1975.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14614136 obligatory slide rule porn

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 18:10:05 2022 No.14615337 >>14614236 https://www.sliderules.org/react/hiram_game.html dude what the fuck

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 18:13:17 2022 No.14615350 File: 78 KB, 800x500, laughing white males.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >comically large slide rule.png

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 18:55:38 2022 No.14615462 I can as I found my late grandfathers one. Its based on logarithms. lg(xy)=lg x +lg y

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 19:29:49 2022 No.14615561 >>14615331 >slide rule porn we live and learn. I, for example, just learned that there is such a thing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 19:43:53 2022 No.14615604 >>14614136 my father has a tie clip that is a functional slide rule. An old school engineer, back when they still wore ties!