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Thread: Any one remember using the slide rule

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    Any one remember using the slide rule

    Then the calculator came out these were expensive . Most of us used the log book.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5fyCwRdUn0
    Old 16mm film on the slide rule. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYQdKbQ-sgM
    Last edited by soulman101; 07-05-2021 at 07:39 PM.

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    Although I got a CSE Grade One in maths ( equal to an O Level grade C ) I was useless at this sort of stuff.

    For most of us it was an utterly useless part of mathematics and a pointless waste of time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mickd1961 View Post
    Although I got a CSE Grade One in maths ( equal to an O Level grade C ) I was useless at this sort of stuff.

    For most of us it was an utterly useless part of mathematics and a pointless waste of time.
    Hi Mick, these a comment on the 16mm film a Dad telling his son calculators make you dumb.
    My wife's hairdresser adds everything up on the calculator, simple additions and still gets it wrong.
    I used to be good at maths so enjoyed it at school.

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    There was some discussion at college when I did my ONC/HNC where the lecturers said using a calculator gave you and advantage over others who didn't have one. The best answer that came back was that we were not in competition with each other - only the smart -ar** who set the questions

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    Quote Originally Posted by SCOOP115 View Post
    There was some discussion at college when I did my ONC/HNC where the lecturers said using a calculator gave you and advantage over others who didn't have one. The best answer that came back was that we were not in competition with each other - only the smart -ar** who set the questions
    Good answer Scoop, what subject did you do in your ONC/HNC

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    Quote Originally Posted by soulman101 View Post
    Good answer Scoop, what subject did you do in your ONC/HNC
    Mechanical Engineering - It got to be a long drawn out story during my 5 year apprenticeship - Party through circumstances and partly because I got idle

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    I still have a slide rule, it resides in my toolbox in the garage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kettering_baggie View Post
    I still have a slide rule, it resides in my toolbox in the garage.
    Jesus Kets.......a tool box😩

    I just knew you’d have one 🤣

    FFS man.......get a life! 😏

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    My Dad taught me how to use a slide rule. At school we used log tables.
    Maths O level papers were 3 hours long.
    Calculators didn't exist but you could use a slide rule. If you wrote "s/r" next to your working you were allowed a margin of error. I finished the exam in under 1.5 hours and left much to astonishment of my mates who were going gog eyed from sifting through the log tables. Thanks to my Dad.
    Last edited by Albionmad; 08-05-2021 at 05:09 AM.

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    Never used one and could never see the sense in Algebra

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