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Re: recommendation for slide rule ? Bygrave
From: Alan S
Date: 2012 May 22, 14:39 -0700
From: Alan S
Date: 2012 May 22, 14:39 -0700
Jim:
So far as I can tell, there is no way that you can get 5 decimal places with a 10" slide rule, such as with degres, minutes and tenths of a minute.
For most any calculation where two or three places are sufficient, the slide rule would still work. Re some things, the more they change, the more they are the same, or so it seems.
Alan
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