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Old 08-18-2022, 09:30 PM   #340
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Originally Posted by j.p.s View Post
When I was a kid, I read a book written at a time when slide rules were still in widespread use, but computers had been invented (and were huge power hungry monsters).

In the book, a spaceship pilot was doing complex interstellar navigation calculations with a 3 foot diameter circular slide rule.
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