- A
slide rule is a hand-operated
mechanical calculator consisting of
slidable rulers for
conducting mathematical operations such as multiplication, division...
- A
slide rule scale is a line with
graduated markings inscribed along the
length of a
slide rule used for
mathematical calculations. The
earliest such...
- Look up
slide rule in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
slide rule is a
mechanical analog computer.
Slide Rule may also
refer to:
Slide Rule (album)...
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mathematical operations and functions. They have
completely replaced slide rules as well as
books of
mathematical tables and are used in both educational...
- 4181-3
slide rule,
front scales K&E 4181-3
slide rule, rear
scales High-precision extra-length
engineering slide rule 4081-5
Sewer slide rule Fetal medical...
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Fuller calculator,
sometimes called Fuller's
cylindrical slide rule, is a
cylindrical slide rule with a
helical main
scale taking 50
turns around the cylinder...
- are
given with
somewhat worse than the
usual expected "
slide-
rule accuracy". Some
slide rules, such as the K&E Deci-Lon in the photo,
calibrate to be...
- four centuries. The idea of
logarithms was also used to
construct the
slide rule (invented
around 1620–1630),
which was
ubiquitous in
science and engineering...
- The E6-B
flight computer is a form of
circular slide rule used in aviation. It is an
instance of an
analog calculating device still being used in the 21st...
- _{b}x+\log _{b}y,}
provided that b, x and y are all
positive and b ≠ 1. The
slide rule, also
based on logarithms,
allows quick calculations without tables, but...
