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Wed 13 Sep 2006

Slide Rule Porn

Posted by shaun under calculators , geek , nerd , rpn , science , sliderule
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Mark C. Chu-Carroll is competing in a Geekoff with some other highly qualified people over at http://scienceblogs.com. Romana was kind enough to send me a nice little article about slide rules explained by a true master of math education on his Good Math, Bad Math blog. He even has the same K&E rule as I recently bought on Ebay in it’s beautiful orange leather case. The blog entry is worth reading to get your head around some slide rule basics and explains how slide rules make math tactile. That is you get more of a feeling for what is going on.
Chu-Carroll even uses stack based calculators, so you know he is a smart man :)

Just in case he reads this though … What no Intercal?
Here are some photos of my new (well made in 1956) toy

K&E 4081-3

K&E 4081-3 Pic2

K&E 4081-3 Pic3

K&E 4081-3 Pic4

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Wed 13 Sep 2006

Geek Test Again

Posted by shaun under geek , nerd
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My computer geek score is greater than 100% of all people in the world! How do you compare? Click here to find out!

The Nerd test inspired me to take the geek test one more time to see how things are tracking. Hmmm I don’t think working for public service in a completely non computer based job is helping. This is more serious than I thought :)

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Wed 13 Sep 2006

My Nerd Score

Posted by shaun under geek , nerd
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I am nerdier than 92% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out!

I am fairly happy that this result isn’t as high as my geek score. Although the fact I found the link to it on an article about slide rules is a little disturbing :)

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