A slide rule is a hand-operated mechanical calculator consisting of slidable rulers for evaluating mathematical operations such as multiplication, division...
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A slide rule scale is a line with graduated markings inscribed along the length of a slide rule used for mathematical calculations. The earliest such...
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Look up slide rule in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A slide rule is a mechanical analog computer. Slide Rule may also refer to: Slide Rule (album)...
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Scientific calculator (redirect from Electronic slide rule calculator)
mathematical operations and functions. They have completely replaced slide rules as well as books of mathematical tables and are used in both educational...
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Keuffel and Esser (section Slide rules)
4181-3 slide rule, front scales K&E 4181-3 slide rule, rear scales High-precision extra-length engineering slide rule 4081-5 Sewer slide rule Fetal medical...
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E6B (redirect from Prayer wheel (slide rule))
The E6B flight computer is a form of circular slide rule used in aviation. It is an instance of an analog calculating device still being used in the 21st...
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History of logarithms (section Slide rule)
four centuries. The idea of logarithms was also used to construct the slide rule, which became ubiquitous in science and engineering until the 1970s. A...
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Look up slide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Slides. Slide or Slides may refer to: Slide, California, former...
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Logarithm (redirect from Change of base rule)
_{b}x+\log _{b}y,} provided that b, x and y are all positive and b ≠ 1. The slide rule, also based on logarithms, allows quick calculations without tables, but...
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The International Slide Rule Museum (ISRM) is an American museum dedicated to the preservation and display of slide rules and other mathematical artefacts...
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