Today's Jokes - 2024

[682bear]

 

[682bear]

 

[Eddyde]

Makes me think of the engineering majors when I was in college who had their slide rules in a leather holster.

I still have a slide rule in a leather holster, somewhere...

 

[davek181]

 

[RJSakowski]

My old Picket slide rule sits next to my desk. The adjustable magnesium frame and adjustable cursor made for exceptional accuracy and smoothness. I routinely worked to better than .1% with it. I also had a leather holster with a clip for my belt and the slide rule went everywhere with me. When I needed more accuracy, I had my 12th edition CRC Math Handbook with 5 place log and trig tables. There are twenty pages required for the 5 place log tables. Each additional decimal place requires 10x the number of pages. The scientific calculator in my phone has 10 decimal places. were I replacing it with log tables, I would need a set of volumes containing 2 million pages.

The first electronic calculators became available in 1970. My first calculator was a four banger with a 1/4" high display. The following year I got a TI SR50. I quit carrying the slide rule after that.

 

[NCjeeper]

 

[matthewsx]

I have both of my dad’s slide rules, large and small. I used the small one in my chemistry class but never mastered it.

My dad sent men to the moon with his.

John

 

[Geswearf]

 

[Geswearf]

 

[Geswearf]