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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Could you use a slide rule for that kind of multiplication?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Absolutely. But I learned in 2005, and the electric calculator had replaced the sliderule a couple of decades earlier.

But this is something they were great at, but usually not with the same accuracy. It's hard to get more than 3 decimal places out of one, and tables are great for that, you can fill whole books with them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I would use an Abacus for multiplication and a Venier scale for accuracy