DISQUS

Shooting at Bubbles: Slide ruler, Calculator, Google and Lazy Thinking

  • John Dowdell · 1 year ago
    It's a "slide rule", not "slide ruler". (And please don't ask me how I know.... ;-)
  • StevenHodson · 1 year ago
    I won't but I guess I should also mention that Ibarely made it through math in my younger years and the slide rule played some part of that :) .. never could figure out how to use one
  • pB · 1 year ago
    Glad someone else noticed that too <G>
  • StevenHodson · 1 year ago
    ya ya .. pick on the old guy :)
  • Ron76 · 1 year ago
    The (sneaky) solution would be for teachers to sign up en mass to wikipedia,
    add bogus information to topics which are asked about in school and then
    grade accordingly when students submit the nonsense as homework.

    If the teacher's union put their membership to it, they could easily overwhelm
    wikipedia's regular editors.
  • John Dowdell · 1 year ago
    ... but it *is* a fascinating instrument. Have you seen "Eric's Slide Rule Site"?
    http://www.sliderule.ca/
  • Michael · 1 year ago
    I was at Tara recent inaugural lecture at the University of Brighton and taped the lecture (6.5 MB WMA file). You can find the link at http://nomadx.org/content/view/1810/63/

    Regards
    Michael
  • StevenHodson · 1 year ago
    thanks Michael .. much appreciated.