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I was doing a crossword puzzle last week, and one of the clues required that you know about logarithm tables. I realised I hadn’t seen those for many years since we’d been taught how to use them at school – calculators were around but not ubiquitous. You had to know how to look up logs (base 10 and natural), sines, square roots etc in these pages. Feeling a bit nostalgic I did a search of bookstores, paid a small amount, and yesterday a book turned up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now if only I could remember where I put that slide rule …<\/p>\n

This post was last updated on February 4th, 2021 at 04:28 pm<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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