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Article: Slide rules OK when you doni?1/2t have a PC.(Brief article)
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- Personal Computer World
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- March 19, 2009
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Byline: Clive Akass
Slide rules OK when you don't have a PC
When your reporter was a student, there were no digital computers for ordinary mortals, digital calculators did not exist, and calculating the results of a simple experiment could take hours.
We did have a kind of analogue computer, though. The slide rule was then (early 1960s) around 340 years old, and few of us had any idea that within a decade it would look as antiquated as a horse and cart.
It used two sliding logarithmic scales that allow ...