I've Got A Slide Rule And I Know How To Use It ...
 

Of course, this could mean to do the math in your head and to use the shot clock instead of a visual count. Control occurs two seconds after touch? Call the ten second violation with 23 on the shot clock.

Just kidding. I fully realize that the guidelines are mostly based on NCAA rules where both the shot clock and the ten second count start on the touch.

That would be a 10-second violation at 18, not 23. Any way, I hope that the shot clock would become more massively distributed.

Do The Math ...
 

I've got a Pickett Model N-500-ES Trig All Metal Slide Rule and I know how to use it.

35-2-10=23

I was using a 30-second shot clock for my calculations, because that is what both DC and MD use for their games. You'd be right with a 35-second shot clock.

And I have both a half-size and a full-size Post Versalog Slide Rule as well as a Post Trig Slide Rule and I know how to use all three of them, :p!

MTD, Sr.

The Slide Rule Club ...
 

Before I retired from teaching middle school science I came across a large demonstration slide rule, about six feet long, behind stacks of books in a little used storage room. I remember my high school chemistry teacher, Mr. Dalton, back in the late 1960's, using one of these demonstration slide rules to teach us how to use slide rules.

So I figured I'd start a school slide rule club to teach interested students how to use slide rules, as old-timers did back before there were calculators. I got a local newspaper reporter to interview me for an article in which I asked people from town to check their attics and basements and donate any old slide rules to the school, and I received several donations.

After teaching the use of the slide rule, I figured the student club members could practice multiplication, division, squares, square roots, cubes, and cube root problems, and possibly having some type of "calculation contest" as a wrap-up activity.

I had a write up in the school club handbook, filled a display case in a hallway near my classroom with the slide rules I had collected, as well as the giant demonstration slide rule, and asked all math and science teachers in all three grades to talk-up the slide rule club.

I knew that the slide rule club wouldn't be a super popular club, but I figured that a few nerdy kids interested in science and/or math would sign up. The didn't even have to stay after school, clubs were held once a week during normal school hours (with shortened class periods that day).

750 kids in the school.

Not a single student signed up for the slide rule club as one of their top choices.

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Imagine (John Lennon, 1971) ...
 

Imagine that.

Why are we talking about slide rules? I do the math simply by determining what the initial shot clock value is and how many seconds have elapsed. Any other officials working with a shot clock due the same thing.

It's An Inside Joke ...
 

Good question ilyazhito. You're probably one of the few non-science, non-math, non-old timers, who knows that a slide rule doesn't allow for addition and subtraction calculations.

Years and years ago when I was doing some substitute teaching of Mathematics in the Toledo Public School I found one like that in Waite H.S. The teacher whose room it was in told me that it was there when she started teaching. I attempted to buy it from TPS but it was not listed as TPS property so TPS could not sell it to more but if I decided to take it I would be charged with theft of school property, lol! Of course if I had managed to buy it from TPS Bonnie would have probably divorced me if I had brought it home, LOL!

MTD, Sr.

Billy and I are talking about slide rules because we are retired STEM professionals and the U.S. put men on the Moon using slide rules.

MTD, Sr.

That make sense. How are slide rules relevant to the shot clock?

I thought they used a Saturn rocket?

ROTFLMTO!!

MTD, Sr.

Hook, Line, Sinker ...
 

They're not. It's an inside joke and you appear to be on the outside. My off-topic, off-season, dead-Forum slide rule/shot clock posts were designed to flush out Mark T. DeNucci, Sr., and he took the bait.

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