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(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!
(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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