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Re: Slide ruler, Calculator, Google and Lazy Thinking

StevenHodson — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:45:41 -0000

thanks Michael .. much appreciated.

Re: Slide ruler, Calculator, Google and Lazy Thinking

Michael — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:53:17 -0000

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/v...

Regards
Michael

Re: Slide ruler, Calculator, Google and Lazy Thinking

John Dowdell — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:07:46 -0000

... but it *is* a fascinating instrument. Have you seen "Eric's Slide Rule Site"?
http://www.sliderule.ca/

Re: Slide ruler, Calculator, Google and Lazy Thinking

Ron76 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:52:17 -0000

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.

Re: Slide ruler, Calculator, Google and Lazy Thinking

StevenHodson — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:43:50 -0000

ya ya .. pick on the old guy :)

Re: Slide ruler, Calculator, Google and Lazy Thinking

pB — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:29:36 -0000

Glad someone else noticed that too <g>

Re: Slide ruler, Calculator, Google and Lazy Thinking

StevenHodson — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:07:14 -0000

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

Re: Slide ruler, Calculator, Google and Lazy Thinking

John Dowdell — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:01:27 -0000

It's a "slide rule", not "slide ruler". (And please don't ask me how I know.... ;-)