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Old Fri Jul 30, 2021, 11:00am
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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.


And I am dang proud that I know how to use a slide rule. I wear it proudly from my belt like a sword.

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Old Fri Jul 30, 2021, 11:12am
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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.
Something tells me that Ilya does not fall in the category of "non-math, non-science". Don't know why you're proffering that assumption.
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Old Fri Jul 30, 2021, 11:37am
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Something tells me that Ilya does not fall in the category of "non-math, non-science". Don't know why you're proffering that assumption.
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... one of the few non-science, non-math, non-old timers ...
There was no "or", but the addition of an "and" could have avoided Raymond's confusion.
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Old Fri Jul 30, 2021, 11:38am
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And I am dang proud that I know how to use a slide rule. I wear it proudly from my belt like a sword.
As we all did, and it drove chicks crazy.

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Old Fri Jul 30, 2021, 12:43pm
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... that a slide rule doesn't allow for addition and subtraction calculations.
But it does add and subtract logarithms, that's how slide rules multiply and divide.



Fun's over. BillyMac out.
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Old Sat Jul 31, 2021, 03:24am
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Something tells me that Ilya does not fall in the category of "non-math, non-science". Don't know why you're proffering that assumption.
You're correct. I'm studying accounting. Anyway, enough of the digression to slide rules.
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