I am a geek!

[mrsbrown]

etfb posted a link to this article.

I'm so excited by it! I need my very own slide rule!

I would have enjoyed engineering then too!

Except I suspect my drafting skills would have meant that I wasn't very accurate. :(

I can be a bit slapdash, even when I'm trying hard not to be. My brain just hijacks me for a second and I forget that I'm being careful and then everything turns out out wrongly and I stop caring - until about a minute later when I realise what's happened and start swearing.

Comments

[drjon.livejournal.com]

That's a great article! Thank you!

I have a coiple of slide rules floating about here... including a really cool slide disc...

[anthraxia.livejournal.com]

So if I ever have a few spare million lying around, do I need to add you to the list of people who get this - http://japwatches.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/breitling-navitimer/ - for Christmas?

[sacred-chao.livejournal.com]

A fun thing to read. There was one thing that struck me about that article. It talked about how people would use log tables to multiply because it was so much faster and easier than multiplying that it made up for the time spent using the lookup tables. My understanding is that computers add much better than they multiply. I wonder what percentage of computing cycles you could get rid of in some applications if you had onboard lookup tables of various sorts as a chipset.