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It is a predecessor of the slide rule, a calculating aid used from the 17th century until the 1970s.
en.wikipedia.org More expensive versions have a built-in slide rule on the back.
en.wikipedia.org The six-month curriculum combined theory and hands-on practice, with the students as familiar with a slide rule as with a soldering iron.
en.wikipedia.org This led engineers to take mathematical shortcuts favoring operations that were easy on a slide rule, creating inaccuracies and mistakes.
en.wikipedia.org The front side of the flight computer is a logarithmic slide rule that performs multiplication and division.
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