Trammell HudsonGotta go. My ride is here.
The big slide rule is now hanging in my office in case I need to solve any big math problems.
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apophis@futurebird @th invented by big math to sell more i'll take three
John Blair@th when your log is really big
Bill, organizer of stuff@th There was one of these hanging in my middle school computer lab when I was a kid! We learned Napier's Bones, abacus, and slide rule as an intro to our computer course
don@th logarithms forever!
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@th @bleeptrack Ha! We had one of those on the wall at school too. I even learnt how to use it at school. 😃
Mondanzo@th I don't know how or what it is used for but it looks nice.
eMarginalia@th Great memories! Every math class had one of these back in the 50s and 60s.
Sham 🏳️🌈@th When I saw the thumbnail, I thought it was behind glass that you break in case of big math problem emergencies
blinry@th Whoa! Can you estimate how precisely you can calculate with it? :)
nimjeeks@th that one is double sided I seem to remember. Got a smaller Multilog upstairs somewhere and always found the folding pi scale most useful. Now where do I put the decimal point?
JohnMashey@th
If you like slide rules, we have many at the Computer History Museum, in first section of the exhibition.
When I take groups around, younger folks look ar them in amazement. Older folks recall them fondly.
https://www.guidigo.com/Web/CHM-Revolution-Tour/DHTH2i2fYjA/StreetView/1/Calculators-Abacus
If you like slide rules, we have many at the Computer History Museum, in first section of the exhibition.
When I take groups around, younger folks look ar them in amazement. Older folks recall them fondly.
https://www.guidigo.com/Web/CHM-Revolution-Tour/DHTH2i2fYjA/StreetView/1/Calculators-Abacus
אבו סייבר המקורי - Orr Dunkelm@th if you store books on it, it'll become big numbers library.
The Doctor@th That is beautiful! Where did you get that?
John M. Gamble
felix (grayscale) 🐺@th I had a sudden image of an Apollo-13 era engineer needing to urgently solve a world-ending catastrophic math problem with your giant slide rule and wildly thrusting it into the hanging pictures, knocking them all down, with the camera lingering on the shattered picture frames as a schmaltzy accent on the human cost of massive progress
zwangseinweisung@th I'm jealous! I want one for my office too
AlisonW ♿🏳️🌈♾️
aburka 🫣@th This rules. Also slides, presumably.
Ross of Ottawa@th that one goes to 11
Jon@th you must get FOUR digits of accuracy with that!
Jannis@th Thought of this yesterday when somebody was showcasing a card game with reflection questions and one of them asked »was war Deine größte Lehre im vergangenen Jahr« (what was your biggest lesson learned in the past year), with the ambiguity that »Lehre« (lesson learned) is also the word used in »Schieblehre« (slide rule).
I guess for you the answer to that card would have been clear!
Stewart Russell@th that rules!
1.3.6.1.4.1.61513@th "you won't always have a calculator"
n3tcat 🐈 🇨🇦
Jörg KnappenI remember this kind of things (at that scale): They were used in school by the teachers to demonstrate how to use a *Rechenschieber* (this how it is called in German language).
Angela Scholder@th The one I have is definitely a lot smaller.....
Chris Bohn@th A sliderule that size is clearly used for
long division
victor@th nice & really big!!! These are from my collection... used to do calcs a lot back to high school😁😁👍👍
