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Reply #6

mysticwomyn — Thu, 10 May 2007 00:48:28 GMT

anyone interested in playing around with a slide rule system can go here and use a virtual one!

www.taswegian.com/TwoHeaded/UniVirtual/UniVirtual.html

Reply #5

jarasan — Wed, 09 May 2007 03:19:53 GMT

E-bay. But on the other hand they may come back because of the energy savings, we all have to do our part to battle global warming. Calculator battery savings could be huge

Reply #4

Badger — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:30:45 GMT

Do they even manufacture slide rules anymore? I thought they went the way of the typewriter, the

8-track tape, and (soon) the VCR.

Reply #3

Coin Toss — Tue, 08 May 2007 06:42:50 GMT

If 'Steve Player' starts marketing the Lotto Slide Rule we'll know he's monitoring this board, too.

Reply #2

jarasan — Tue, 08 May 2007 03:37:06 GMT

I'm sure back when the lotteries started, but most use calculators now. The reason being that a slide rule is a mechanical device whose numbers are calculated in an analog fashion and require interpolation by the user, two people may have the same equation but their answers may differ in the 4th or 5th place for eg.

Calculators give digital results not subject to interpolation. There are threads here that one can follow and will step you thru. keying steps for numbers. For eg. using pi, e,... [ More ]

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RJOh — Tue, 08 May 2007 03:25:38 GMT

No because anything that can be done on a slide rule can be done on a scientific calculator and as far as I know no one knows of any ways to calculate the next winning numbers.

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mysticwomyn — Tue, 08 May 2007 03:03:37 GMT

Has anyone ever tried using a slide rule to calculate the next winning number