Although I heartily approve of your method of learning trig, I am afraid my wife would object to me being tutored by attractive young women, nurses or no. No...
... It's becoming VERY clear to me that calculating on a slide rule is WAY more educational than using a calculator. Certainly depending on a calculator for...
I have this really crazy educational plan: Have a lecture on slot machines (poker machines in some countries) in the ninth grade! The reason for this is...
Hello All, I won a Pickett N300-T on an ebay auction a few days ago. The case and slide rule are in great shape, except one of the screws for the top stator...
... The Schaum Outline Series can be problematic. I worked a trade school that had a customized textbook from McGaw-Hill based on the Schaum series that...
... There is less emphasis on memorizing the multiplication table and many teachers I belive have never codified that steps of Long Division-a Six or Seven...
Hi gang, can anyone tell me the difference between a Faber-Castell 2/83N Novo duplex and a Novo biplex? They kinda look alike and have 31 scales each, so...
This was discussed here a while ago, with nothing conclusive. Could have been for different markets? In any case, they are otherwise identical, the different...
I'm sorry I missed the first go round of this discussion. Perhaps I can shed some light on this. Obviously someone at Faber was a fan of classical languages...
It doesn't even help if the cash-register calculator can do the arithmetic at times. On day a customer ahead of me asked the clerk for the 10 % discount and...
Where I was working, one of the machinists needed some calculations that required the law of cosines. I did the math at his bench. He said, "I never studied...
... The Schaum Outline Series can be problematic. I worked a trade school that had a customized textbook from McGaw-Hill based on the Schaum series that...
... In college I majored in EE and math. It was my experience that if you needed help with a math problem you were better off to ask an engineer because they...
Yes, this was one of the theories suggested in our previous discussion. However, I bought a 2/83N Novo-Biplex in a Norwegian office supply shop. The ...
A couple of years ago two fast food clerks and their boss couldn't figure out my change when the register was down. They asked me for help in calculating the...
Just pray a little and keep doing what you're doing. she will stumble over some thing that will awake an interest that with be intellectually stimulating. You...
... Jon, This is beautiful! Very professorial, to coin a word. I did teach Calculus, Advanced Algebra and Trig one year to an experimental high school class,...
That could, of course, be the explanation. But, this poses some questions. Why did they do that? For linguistic reasons? Does 'duplex' have a negative meaning...
John, et al., Bill Robinson and I, along with others, have discussed the naming of slide rule models. At times the names seem to have been misleading and...
Hi Folks: Here's the past week's top 40 completed eBay slide rule auctions (as of today). Have a good weekend, Dave For direct links, go to this page and...
Very good, Marion! The Japanese car Datsun didn't sound very well over here, since in my local dialect it meant 'fell apart'. And when the model Fitta was to...
... Chevrolet found that out the hard way when they tried to market the Chevy Nova in South America. (For the Spanish-challenged, Nova, or "No Va" means "No...
Well, my typing is too fast for me. I should have and I know better, the American ad read "vuela en cuero" not "in cuerpo" which is something else. John's...
... The word Duplex means 'maisonette' or 'two floor apartment' in Spanish, it can also mean 'bi-directional' , not a good name for a slide rule. Paul...
Curiously, that was my first reaction as well: when I was growing up in New York City, a "duplex" meant an apartment on two levels/floors of the building. In...
It's relatively universal. In France too a duplex is an apartment on two levels in a building and is / was considered something really chic ... De :...
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