On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> People are obsessed with meaningless extra decimal digits of precision these > days. After electronic calculators were invented, my mother said it is a > shame people don't learn to use slide rules anymore, because they don't > realize that 3 digits of precision is fine for just about any purpose. It was sufficient to take us to the moon and back. I have a bamboo slide rule on my desk at work. It's really fun asking our intern engineers if they can identify what it is used for. Some of them take a real interest in it. T
