Re: Deep Rescue: Will a shuttle float?
- From: henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Henry Spencer)
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 22:02:12 GMT
In article <e4skr8$75n$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Andre Lieven <dg411@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Do you know how to find the square root of 9,567,281?"
"Sure, I just tap the number in and hit the square root key... piece of
cake." :-\
Thats another example of skills lost by way of modern tech...
Even in pre-calculator days, precious few working professionals could have
remembered how to find a square root by hand. For low precision, you used
a slide rule; for high precision, a table of logarithms, possibly extended
to higher precision via interpolation. Admittedly not quite as simple as
using a calculator, but still very much dependent on mechanical aids.
(And yes, I still have both and could use them if I really had to... My
undergrad years straddled the transition to calculators.)
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