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Old 20-December-2008, 06:39 PM
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* One engineer checks an astronaut's addition using a slide rule.
Slide rules are not used for addition.
I could do addition on my slide rule, but it had an L scale. There are ways to do addtion with C and D scales. 'Course, anybody who was half-way competent with a slide rule could do the addition in their head, faster.

My favorite Feynman astronomy joke was that we shouldn't be calling very large numbers "astronomical" anymore, we should call them "economical".
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