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    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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    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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    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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  • The Bygrave slide rule is a slide rule named for its inventor, Captain Leonard Charles Bygrave of the RAF. It was used in celestial navigation, primarily...
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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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    Fuller calculator, sometimes called Fuller's cylindrical slide rule, is a cylindrical slide rule with a helical main scale taking 50 turns around the cylinder...
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    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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    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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