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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My grandfather was a scientist who could work a sliderule faster than a calculator! That worn out sliderule and his doctorate diploma are my most prized possessions. [/quote] I have my grandfather's slide rule also. He was not a learned man, he ran construction equipment. But when he was laid up in the hospital for a couple of months following an accident, his supervisor gave him a couple books on mathematics to keep him occupied. He spent those months studying trigonometry, and bought a slide rule. He did eventually become a foreman and used some of that knowledge, and always expressed a sense of wonder about the power of math. When I was accepted to engineering school, I think it was about the proudest day of his life. He gave me his old slide rule as a college graduation present. It really is an amazing tool![/quote]
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