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Article: UCSD professor resurrects the lost art of slide rules: modern students discover magic of calculators without batteries.(Joe Pasquale)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- March 10, 2003
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Joe Pasquale used the same slide rule all through high school and during his freshman year at MIT.
Decades ago during college, the UCSD computer science professor gave up his slide rule, a device for figuring mathematical equations.
"I found I just could not compete with my classmates who had calculators," Pasquale said.
But he hesitated to set aside the familiar old yellow rule.
"It's a very personal tool," Pasquale says. "Everyone has kept them. You wouldn't imagine keeping a calculator."
Pasquale wanted students today to discover the magic of slide rules. So he recently brought back the centuries-old instrument -- English ...