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I wonder what Newton would have done with a slide rule...
Or Leibniz for that matter.
Both gentlemen developed spring-and-cog calculators.
Come to think of it, a slide rule is just a straightened out set of cogs, so in a way they were doing the same thing.
Posted by AnsuGisalas
15th Feb 2012