On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 at 21:00:52, Robert Newson wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>The slide rule I used as school was my dad's old one which even had
>inches and centimetres marked down the opposite long edges (it was a
>12" rule).
>
>My brother, a doctor, when her was a student used to keep a 6" rule in
>his pocket as he could calculate things quicker with a slide rule than
>the others with a calculator.
You brother sounds a bit mixed up!
('r' is though very close to 'e' (8-)# )
Mind you, I find it impossible to type 'star' without an appended 't' -
'start' was used so often in Archive (phew - back ONT).
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