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Originally Posted by crich70
Back when the 1st atom bombs were built a slide rule was all they had for their calculations I believe. There is a round one for working out some math I think though I don't know where to find a picture of it.
Edit: found one through wikipedia
Round slide rule |
I had one of those. They had their plusses and minusses.
The bad thing was that they lost precision in the inner scales. The good thing was that you didn't poke your lab partner's eye out.