25 October 2023

How a slide Rule works


 What are logarithms, how do they work, and why do we use them.? Students learnt that I lived in a time BC (Before Calculators), why I needed a slide rule, and how it worked using two rulers working as a number line. We also looked at log tables. Rather Frightening.

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