Engineers

Quoted message said:

to give advice and encouragement to young people.>

Don't suppose any of you young guns have ever seen, let alone used a
slip stick!

Mike

Didn't have to but I decided to learn how to use them once (since there
were a couple lying around). Even have a couple of stadia (round) ones.
Didn't hurt me at all and if the calculation isn't long/repetitive I'm
just as likely to use one as bother to excavate the calculator from the
desk.

Straight mutiplication or division is always on the back of an envelope
or in the head. I can never find calculators when I need them (and it
takes too long to use Excel)

But then I'm civil so none of our calcs are that hard, they just use
large numbers.

Cheers

BrettM

BrettM said:

Quoted message said:

to give advice and encouragement to young people.>

Don't suppose any of you young guns have ever seen, let alone used a
slip stick!

Mike

Didn't have to but I decided to learn how to use them once (since there
were a couple lying around). Even have a couple of stadia (round) ones.
Didn't hurt me at all and if the calculation isn't long/repetitive I'm
just as likely to use one as bother to excavate the calculator from the
desk.

Straight mutiplication or division is always on the back of an envelope
or in the head. I can never find calculators when I need them (and it
takes too long to use Excel)

But then I'm civil so none of our calcs are that hard, they just use
large numbers.

Cheers

BrettM

I like calculating things in my head, it always disturbs the shop
attendants. It's something that takes your mind off the pain when you're
3/4 of the way through the run leg as well...

Tam (not that I do that anymore)

Tamyka Bell <[email hidden]> wrote in news:20050625130029.T80944
@emu.uq.edu.au:

Quoted message said:

I like calculating things in my head, it always disturbs the shop
attendants. It's something that takes your mind off the pain when

you're

Quoted message said:

3/4 of the way through the run leg as well...

Tam (not that I do that anymore)

Oh wow I'm not as weird as I thought.
I find that I do average speed, distance travelled, distance to go
anytime I'm on the bike or in the car (which is a lot). Stupidly I have
to do this to several decimal places which means that the information is
useless by the time you calculate it. So then you try predictive stuff
and if the distance is long enough use spherical and work with the geod.

Oh wait, that is weird.

Cheers

BrettM

Tamyka Bell said:

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, BrettM wrote:
I like calculating things in my head, it always disturbs the shop
attendants. It's something that takes your mind off the pain when you're
3/4 of the way through the run leg as well...
Tam (not that I do that anymore)

You shouldn't do things like that just to impress boys.. :P

hippy

coppershark said:

Don't suppose any of you young guns have ever seen, let alone used a
slip stick!

Still got one

Theo

Theo Bekkers said:

coppershark said:

Don't suppose any of you young guns have ever seen, let alone used a
slip stick!

That is another reason for pulling it out "what is that?"

1) You do the calc quickly in your head.
2) "I'll check it" and pull out the slide rule.

Quoted message said:

Still got one

One! I have seven {:-)

Okay, two were mine which I purchased while at Uni in the 70's. One
general basic and one for engineers.

One I was given by little sister after her studies. I also gain her
none- RPN calculator {:-(.

And four are specialist electrical/electonic engineer's models purchased
as $5? specials when the Uni shop had a clearance. I never did work out
the practical purpose of all the special scales. Even picked up some
clip on magnifiers for them.

Still occassionally use them when I need specific figures that I can not
roll off easily in my head.

Best feature is they don't suddenly beep "Low Batteries" and sulk (:-)

Terry Collins said:

Theo Bekkers said:

coppershark said:

Don't suppose any of you young guns have ever seen, let alone used a
slip stick!

That is another reason for pulling it out "what is that?"

1) You do the calc quickly in your head.
2) "I'll check it" and pull out the slide rule.

Quoted message said:

Still got one

One! I have seven {:-)

Okay, two were mine which I purchased while at Uni in the 70's. One
general basic and one for engineers.

One I was given by little sister after her studies. I also gain her
none- RPN calculator {:-(.

And four are specialist electrical/electonic engineer's models purchased
as $5? specials when the Uni shop had a clearance. I never did work out
the practical purpose of all the special scales. Even picked up some
clip on magnifiers for them.

Still occassionally use them when I need specific figures that I can not
roll off easily in my head.

Best feature is they don't suddenly beep "Low Batteries" and sulk (:-)

Have you got a round one? I've got a round one that my Dad gave
me. The advantage? It automatically takes care of powers of 10,
just count the "winding number", very elegant. Not that I ever
use the thing. A well designed scientific calculator is the best
tool (HP 32Sii for mine).

Don't get me started on those damned graphics calculators. They've
been a disaster for mathematics (and thus technical) education.

ObBike: Blue parcel arrived today (26th), ordered 19th. Have still
to get order from the 3rd. Probike blamed "printing problems".

Duncan.

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