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Time Travel—-70s articles, please
05-19-2018, 03:30 AM
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RE: Time Travel—-70s articles, please
(05-19-2018 12:04 AM)brickviking Wrote:  
(05-18-2018 08:54 PM)Matt Agajanian Wrote:  Or at least have a lesson plan on how to use the slide rule and there should be a test on them after the lesson is finished.

Even better, perhaps the lesson could be how to make the sliderule. Now that would be a challenge and a half. I know, I'm an evil genius. If they want technical merit as well, they could embed a little 10-digit LCD display that shows the current number to two D.P. for one of four scales. That exercises the tech geniuses among them.

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Definitely diabolical! Perplexingly fiendish indeed!
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05-19-2018, 07:50 AM
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RE: Time Travel—-70s articles, please
(05-19-2018 12:04 AM)brickviking Wrote:  
(05-18-2018 08:54 PM)Matt Agajanian Wrote:  Or at least have a lesson plan on how to use the slide rule and there should be a test on them after the lesson is finished.

Even better, perhaps the lesson could be how to make the sliderule. Now that would be a challenge and a half. I know, I'm an evil genius. If they want technical merit as well, they could embed a little 10-digit LCD display that shows the current number to two D.P. for one of four scales. That exercises the tech geniuses among them.

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Love it! I took my Sun Hemmi sliderule in and students passed it around the class. I used it as an example of one of the applications of logarithms.
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