RE: waaay off-topic (was: waay off-topic, previously way-off and Re: U2-darn ...

["Phil White" pdwhite@xxxxxxxx]

Yup!

	I still have the Pickett Aluminum slide rule I used in college back
in the '60s, although I didn't use it much after I got my HP-65 card
programmable calculator in the '70s.

	I can still use the slide rule, but the HP's batteries are kaput.
:-)

	- Phil White


Philip D. White,
Senior Information Architect
University of Houston, CASA Testing Center

Phone: (713) 743-4135
Fax: (713) 743-8630
Email: pdwhite@xxxxxxxx


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  Bob White

In a message dated 2/25/2006 3:43:22 P.M. Central Standard Time,
auerbach@xxxxxxxx writes:

	Sure, absolutely correct. The slide rule (Napier's bones) is based
on
	logarithmic scales and logarithms are ways of doing arithmetic with

	exponents.