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7 Responses to “Thought for the day”

1. lordsomber, on October 4th, 2012 at 22:12 Said:

   All the way up through calculus, rarely used calculators. Maybe when working with logarithms.

   For chem and physics though, it was vital.

   
   
2. CherryPie, on October 5th, 2012 at 00:14 Said:

   When I was I child all the only thing that was allowed in a maths lesson apart from the pupil and the teacher, was a slide rule!

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule

   
   
3. Rossa, on October 5th, 2012 at 07:05 Said:

   Thought it was a French Letter, Chuckles.

   
   
4. Chuckles, on October 5th, 2012 at 07:35 Said:

   Rossa,

   So did I , until I leaned across the aisle at school in Allentown and asked someone if I could borrow their rubber …

   
   
5. Mark, on October 5th, 2012 at 07:39 Said:

   Slide rules for me were for physics

   
   
6. James Higham, on October 5th, 2012 at 08:24 Said:

   I never used slide rule, nor abacus, though I saw kids with the former. In Russia, various shopkeepers used abacus. Never used rubber until last gf – don’t like them.

   
   
7. Rossa, on October 5th, 2012 at 14:25 Said:

   Chuckles

   Used or unused?

   As we all know by now, 30 doesn’t go into 15, at least not in this country. Have to go to France for that