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Re: Reform UK's chronicles
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Originally Posted by Carth
Calculators, brilliant things that took the hard work out of learning how to do math at school. No longer 3 pages of calculations required, log books thrown in the bin (sine cosine), Trigonometry turned into childs play, Algebra no longer gave you migraine.
Come on admit it, you just used to input a few numbers then turn it upside down to see what word they spelt  |
My we get diverted here. Trouble is calculators could also remove the need to think about what you were doing and why. Looking at a slide rule you could see a log scale and remember that adding logs is equivalent to multiplication.
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