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Major flaw in "Hidden Figures"


Pulp, SASS#28319

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I always did figures in my head. Hated it in the army when I had use forms, pencils, and books of log tables.

 

Maybe slide rules didn't have the required degree of accuracy. They are not 5 digit instruments.

Edited by Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984
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I've got a very fine slipstick that will calculate almost anything. Had a carrying case that I used to hook to my belt. Once I got out of college (1965), never used it! By the time I got out into the aerospace industry, electronic calculators had made the sliderule obsolete! :( Showed it to a couple of high school students...and could barely remember how some of the more archane scales worked! -_- My current "sliderule" is a pocket calculator that cost about $15.

It has trig functions and statistical functions on it. There are pocket calculators today that have more memory than the main computers aboard the Apollo spacecraft and maybe even the Space Shuttles!

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