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Originally Posted by Metal Mick
Oh, I still have a slide rule that I bought for high school. I tried showing show it worked to my young daughter and she asked, "Why would you use that instead of a calculator?"
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The calculator requires infrastructure.
If a global universal OMG catastrophe reduces us all to living in a world similar to The Road Warrior, the calculator will be worthless once all the batteries are gone, but the slide rule will still work.
