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To: Steely Tom

US sailors who were good at math brought down the Soviet Union. Communists fear anyone who knows their way around a slide rule.


21 posted on 12/09/2021 10:53:57 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91. )
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To: Thrownatbirth

Think of the structures and other items designed by engineers using slide rules to three significant figures. When I went to college we labored through five place logarithms.

Sweet Nostalgia!


34 posted on 12/09/2021 12:17:58 PM PST by NorthStarOkie (When I was young, I was poor. After years of hard work, I am no longer young.)
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