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Re: recommendation for slide rule ?
From: Greg R_
Date: 2011 Nov 23, 19:47 -0800
From: Greg R_
Date: 2011 Nov 23, 19:47 -0800
But apparently neither device is capable of calculating the "nostalgia factor" part of a fair market price... �;-) --- On Wed, 11/23/11, Lu Abelwrote: From: Lu Abel Subject: [NavList] Re: recommendation for slide rule ? To: "NavList@fer3.com" Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 5:34 PM Faster, cheaper -- and much more accurate. � Slide rules gave answers accurate to two decimal places; even the cheapest scientific calculators give answers accurate to eight or more places. From: GregR To: NavList Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 11:08 AM Subject: [NavList] Re: recommendation for slide rule ? Wow, sure glad I didn't throw out the ones I had from college days (etc.). Who ever would have thought that they'd eventually be worth ~10x their original price, especially when they were replaced by electronics that were faster and cheaper? -- GregR On 11/23/2011 10:59:08 AM, randall.f.morrow@kp.org wrote: > Slide rules still for sale but very expensive.... > > http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/nib-pickett.html#catalog > > > Randall F Morrow PT > Kern County - Bakersfield > > > NOTICE TO RECIPIENT:� If you are not the intended recipient of this > e-mail, > you are prohibited from sharing, copying, or otherwise using or disclosing > its contents.� If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify > the sender immediately by reply e-mail and permanently delete this e-mail > and any attachments without reading, forwarding or saving them.� Thank > you. > > > > > Alan > Sent by: navlist-bounce@fer3.com > 11/23/2011 10:51 AM Please respond to > NavList@fer3.com > > To > NavList@fer3.com cc > Subject > [NavList] Re: recommendation for slide rule ? > > > > > Interesting comments on slide rules. I had a couple, never was really good > with them, years ago. Used to use > Smoley's Tables for calculations, they were somethng. These days, a great > deal of such calculations, possibly all of them can be done with the > ubiquitous "scientific calculator" or "electronic slide-rule". I use an HP > 11C, that I bought in the early 1990's, > It had gone out of productio