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Originally Posted by sabredog
I well remember Starman Jones by Robert Heinlein where the ships astrogators had to be mathematical geniuses, using logarithmic tables to calculate hyperspace jumps. They even used slide rules before card inputting to the ships computer.
Well I remember using log tables at school and later professionally! Slide rules...nope....
It is a good book though!
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I learned how to use a slide rule when I was about 9 years old, and a few years later the first decent electronic calculators came out. I was a little bummed out because my slide rule skills were useless, but you could do a lot of cool things with calculators, much easier.....