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1st November 2006, 03:03 PM #16
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We had log tables in high school up until 1981 when they brought in the calculator subject. The calculator they pushed did log, sin, cos, stats functions plus a heap of other functions you'd probably never use.
Our maths master had a portable programmable calculator in 1977-78. He was the only person allowed to use it. It was the size of a cash register and it ran on 240 volts. It was programmed by means of a paper tape. He spent hours once creating a loop program, which he had great pride in displaying to us in class one day. It did some calculations that resulted in a random number between 0.1 and 0.111111111 every half second or so, which only ever contained ones below the decimal place. When he turned the thing on it's side, it looked like a digital yo yo. That was the culmination of a degree in mathematics and a year's worth of maths department budget.
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1st November 2006, 03:27 PM #17
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Congratulations to you Scott, your neighbour and the kid you tutored.
There should be more people like the lot of you but then there would be heaps of lawyers, policemen and soldiers on the dole.- Wood Borer
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1st November 2006, 04:58 PM #18
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Hi Scott,
That's a really good illustration of giving something, and being surprised and charmed by the rewards (and I don't just mean the book, thoughtful and lovely as it was) that can come back.
Obviously the family of your student were pretty impressed, and hopefully he can build on what you've taught him.
Great tale, my friend!
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1st November 2006, 05:02 PM #19
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Yep; so ancient I recall using them at school
Originally Posted by Wongo
Log tables??:eek: Are they the same things as the "4 figures tables"?
Well we called them the "4 figure tables" in HK. It is how you find the value of log(x) or cos(x) etc without a calculator.
Man that's so ancient.
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1st November 2006, 06:13 PM #20
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Wonderful story mister Wongo Maloof - now no dominoing the joints okay
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TEEJAY
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1st November 2006, 06:24 PM #21
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And why not?! Maloof was quite fond of loose tenons! Originally Posted by TEEJAY
Wonderful story mister Wongo Maloof - now no dominoing the joints okay 
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1st November 2006, 06:43 PM #22
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Originally Posted by Auld Bassoon
And why not?! Maloof was quite fond of loose tenons! CHOMP !
Yeah I know I'm just jealous
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1st November 2006, 08:11 PM #23
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Wongo,
YOU are my HERO!!
Seriously though Scott, congrats!!
It's a good feeling to see someone you have tutored put it all together & run with it.
It's only happened to me a few times when I was running photography courses.
Now.......how come the attached picture is SMALLER than the thumbnail...:confused: :confused: :confused:Cheers
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