Hello: This past week a fellow slide collector called me to ask about a rule that he had purchased on eBay for $20 and had just arrived. It turned out that the...
Hi Folks: Here's the past week's top 40 completed eBay slide rule auctions (as of Friday). Have a good weekend, Dave For direct links to these auctions, go to...
Hi all; More differential practice. A little harder than the first equation with emphasis on mentally setting up the problem to do on a slide rule. For...
Hello I have been contacted by someone via my web site who has a 7-foot Picket rule to sell. He lives in central Iowa and is willing to sell the rule someone...
Ron - $100 is probably all it's worth to a collector, if that much. The shipping/transportation costs would make it undesirable. Thanks anyway, but I'll...
... Hash: SHA1 ... Spoiler warning. Bill D., If I understand the problem correctly, the key to this one (after writing out the solution on paper) is to raise e...
I have a large double abacus made to hang on the wall. I would like to know if it was meant to used or only decoration. Also there are five characters carved...
The following sliderule poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: What do you consider to be a "Pocket Rocket" slide rule? CHOICES AND...
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... Group Members: Sorry for such a late answer on this, but I really haven't had time to set down and compose this before. There is another way to do problems...
Hi Charles, My understanding from speaking with a few people is that the double abacus is used as a wall hanging to bring good luck and fortune to the...
... a ... roots of ... to ... I know, original poster mentioned arbitrary roots, but as a matter of idle curiosity it turns out that 7.5th root can be...
I uploaded to "files" a photo of both my double abacus for comparison. If you recognize the characters on the smaller abacus, please tell me. Thanks much! A...
Hi Andrew, Very clever method! I see how it works. As example, find the 7.5th root of 2. We set up the slide rule, with the reversed slide. Then we are doing...
FYI... ... Green is for Health... for example; Green table cloths with Red seats in eating establihments... -- Dave G. KK7SS '65 MK III Sprite in Richland,...
Hi; 7.5th root of 0.0000005. Another way, with a Rietz, set hairline to 5 on CI scale read .301 on Log scale. Add -6 (decimal to first significant digit to...
Hi Andrew, That's really very clever - took me a while to see how it works, and I really can't imagine how you came up with that. For anyone else having...
When I use a slide rule I like to stick to basics. For me, it takes less time and leads to fewer errors. To find the root of any number divide the log by the...
Unless I am wrong, the reciprocal of the negative logs can be found by reading the L scale from right to left ala sine scale. I have often thought that SR...
I wasn't aware of this either. Although I have observed several other 'Aristo' products on ebay, not related to the slide rule: watches, lamps, shower...
Hi Everyone, Recently I provided some software ( http://sliderules.lovett.com/feedback/codedisplay.html) that attempts to match ebay provided codenames with...
For information, how do we figure out what our codename is? Last thing I bought was a Nokia N810 and they don't seem to have applied a code name to me, even...
Hi Folks: Here's the past week's top 40 completed eBay slide rule auctions (as of Friday). Have a good weekend, Dave For direct links to these auctions, go to...
Hi Ray, Ebay doesn't let you see your own code name! However, if you give details of an article you won (i.e. article identification, price you paid and time...
... From which common English words "aristocracy" and "aristocrat" derive, meaning "rule by the best". The definition of "best" in that context is of course...
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