On 2014-05-01, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:42:33 -0400, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> declaimed the > following: > >>In article <mailman.9594.1398818045.18130.python-l...@python.org>, >> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>> (one reason slide-rules were acceptable for so long -- and even my high >>> school trig course only required slide-rule significance even though half >>> the class had scientific calculators [costing >$100, when a Sterling >>> slide-rule could still be had for <$10]) <G> >> >>Sterling? Snort. K&E was the way to go. > > Math teacher was selling them in my 10th grade... Actually I already > owned a Faber-Castell 57/22 "Business" ruler (which did NOT have the CF/DF > scales set for *PI) and a Pickett N-1010-ES Trig rule. What does a "business" slide-rule do? Depreciation? -- "Mrs CJ and I avoid clichés like the plague." -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
