which did you grow up with? I still have one (slide) that sits basically unused these days
2007-11-09 07:46:56 · 17 answers · asked by magnetic_azimuth 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I learned how to use a slide rule even though calculators were more than readily available.
My grandfather used to say how NASA landed on the moon using a slide rule, pen and paper. Today, they have all the computers doing the work for them and they can't get a robot to take a bloody picture without something going wrong.
2007-11-09 07:51:05 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. E. Bunny A.K.A. Andy. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used a slide ruler extensively for approximations and rough working while doing my first degree in maths 1969-1972, then in 1974-5 Sinclair had his first programmable calculator, and we thought the world had arrived at our dorrstep. Sleek, black, cost about 30 pounds and it coudl do 12 digit arithmetic - but I never lost the use of the slide rule and mentally i can stil keep rough track with a check out operator at a supermarket or scan a restuarant bill in seconds....
2007-11-09 07:52:19 · answer #2 · answered by Dad 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Calculator, because I don't even know what a slide rule is, and I was born in the age of technology. Or so it is called by a certain book. That I haven't read. That I totally made up.
2007-11-09 07:54:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slide rules give a better feel for the numbers. Calculators are too easy to make an error.
2007-11-09 07:49:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Calculator, takes to much time with the slide rule and involves to many steps to solve an problem
2007-11-09 07:51:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I learned on a slide rule, too. I was in high school when electronic calculators first became available, but they were big, expensive, and could only do basic operationa (add subtract multiply divide). I still have my old slide rule, still remember how to use it, too.
2007-11-09 07:55:35 · answer #6 · answered by john_holliday_1876 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slide rule..I still have mine. The calculator, once I could afford one, is much more accurate and a heck of a lot faster.
EDIT:
Which brings me to one of my younger co-workers who just asked me what can be measured with a slide rule.....
LOL
2007-11-09 07:50:29 · answer #7 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i got one too. and was very expensive SR, during that time in the' early 70's, but i still like to use it to keep my estimation to be within accepted %age range of accuracy !
Besides, i do not use much calculator anymore, after my graduation for to me it's a good exercise for the brain and to keep its mathematical activity once a while.
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2007-11-09 09:31:04 · answer #8 · answered by Ephesians 2:8 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
slide rule is how I learned to do baseball statistics!
2007-11-09 07:49:16 · answer #9 · answered by Lefty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I seldom use my slide rule any more.
2015-09-05 14:00:14 · answer #10 · answered by J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋