18 Feb
2020
18 Feb
'20
6:17 a.m.
On Sun, 16 Feb 2020, Bakul Shah wrote:
What brand was your grandfather's sliderule?
Mine was an Arista, and had it right through school; have no idea where it
is now. I also had a circular slide rule, which was fascinating.
Trivia: slide rules were banned for exams (and no calculators in those
days), but log tables were OK; come some important exam, some idiot of a
teacher forgot to specify that log tables were allowed so they were
forbidden. I merely worked the problems through right down to the long
division, and left them there with a note saying that we were supposed to
use log tables; I passed...
-- Dave