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What do slide rules and gunshows have in common?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 2110329" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p>Anybody who's a pilot has used a version of a circular slide rule in the form of the E6B flight computer. I have three of them within reach on my desk right now, plus the one on my watch.</p><p></p><p>Learn to use them, and they really are pretty slick. Very fast, and they enforce sanity checking upon you in a way that electronic gizmos can't; you have to develop a back-of-the-envelope knowledge of what the answer ought to be to use one. Such knowledge allows you to easily detect errors like, say, mixing your standard and metric units. Hey, Mars Rover Team, you listening?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 2110329, member: 13624"] Anybody who's a pilot has used a version of a circular slide rule in the form of the E6B flight computer. I have three of them within reach on my desk right now, plus the one on my watch. Learn to use them, and they really are pretty slick. Very fast, and they enforce sanity checking upon you in a way that electronic gizmos can't; you have to develop a back-of-the-envelope knowledge of what the answer ought to be to use one. Such knowledge allows you to easily detect errors like, say, mixing your standard and metric units. Hey, Mars Rover Team, you listening? [/QUOTE]
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