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To: sima_yi

Once, just after my TI calculator died, I was doing a geophysics problem set, in a lab where a bunch of us would study after hours. I was using my slide rule, and the younger students kept asking about it, saying how their dads used to have one and so forth. I ended up giving slide-rule lessons for much of the evening.


92 posted on 03/13/2022 12:13:43 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

My class at VaTech was the last to use slide rule. By the time I got to my undegrad geophysics course I had long chucked my slide rule. (Actually I kept it and mounted it in a frame. Has an hnroed place on the wall of my home office.)


94 posted on 03/13/2022 12:17:07 PM PDT by Reily
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