On Thursday, 22 December 2005 at 12:50:15 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Tuesday 20 December 2005 20:35, Daniel Webb wrote: > >>(pulls out my slide ruler to figure out when it's dinner time). > > > > > >Thats properly called a slide rule. I still have one, a K&E > >log-log-deci-trig that still works just fine. Does that make me a > >little jurassic, and probably old enough to be your grandfather? Yup. > > I *made* my first slide rule out of a manila folder, following > directions in a book called "The Fun of Mathematics" (IIRC).
That was a good book. I never made a slide rule but I still have a couple somewhere. Hemmi bamboo slide rules were the best. Come to that, I have a couple of lovely sorobans too, but I don't use them very often either. Another old fogie... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
