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To: bert

Yes, but I defy you to add a string of numbers up on a slide rule.

A piece of paper and a pencil will in the right hands.

A slide rule will multiply, divide, work in powers and roots, make trig calculations. BUT will not add and subtract. An Abicus will.

I by the way have several of them. My first was a K&E Descilon I purchased when I was in high school. And I have several that were my father-in-law’s. He was an EE.


8 posted on 05/13/2016 5:59:05 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil
EE's carry their K&E Log log dectrig's clipped to their belt's.

Real engineers carry them upside down in their hip pocket


9 posted on 05/13/2016 6:03:22 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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