That’s why bigger is better. A “normal” slide rule is usually about 10 inches long. There were pocket rules that were shorter and even one on a tie tac that wasn’t very practical to use.

Before there were apps for tablets and smartphones, before mathematics education software was easily installed on personal computers, before electronic calculators entered professional practice and ...

Primarily for multiplication and division, the slide rule has two stationary sets and one sliding set of numbers in the center. To multiply, numbers are added; to divide, numbers are subtracted.

The NFL faces mounting criticism over how quarterback Patrick Mahomes exploits league rules designed to protect players, raising calls for reform.

I HAVE read with great interest the abstract of the paper on the invention of the slide rule, by Prof. F. Cajori, which appeared in NATURE of December 30, 1909. I agree with the author in thinking ...

The pocket application makes it possible to conceal one or more sliding panels in a closed and isolated space. The Vitrocsa aluminium sliding window version is available in several ranges ...

ECLISSE presents ECLISSE Single, a sliding pocket door system. A structure conceived and designed to host a sliding door, replacing a section of the wall and creating the illusion that the door ...

This merger added a range of PIC slide rules to their range. the plastic slide rules where introduced in the 1960s and in 1967 the company became British Thornton. The slide rule was the evelution ...

The NFL is expected to expand its replay assist to account for plays that could include the quarterback slide over the ...