Calculator Wars at your School

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(06-22-2022 04:31 AM)RichieHH Wrote:  

(06-20-2021 09:25 PM)Garth Wilson Wrote:  Hmmm... I'd say someone was not very skilled at the slide rule! Someone who's skilled at it should be able to get answers just about as quickly as with a calculator. The big difference came when calculators became programmable and could carry out ten instructions per second. That's where I left the slide rule behind.

I'm wondering if you're joking here. There's a reason slide rules were replaced. A slide rule user won't come close to a decent sci calc user in terms of speed or accuracy. Nice idea, but somewhat hazed by romantic notion?

Clearly written by a non-Engineer (or worse yet, a Mathematician). In the first exam of my first EE class the instructor said, after passing out the exam paper, "Please, please don't write down your answer to ten digits. You won't find a part accurate to ten digits in any catalog."