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Dave John Posts: 22335 Joined: 27th Feb 2011 Location: England | Posted at 20:54 on 8th July 2014 Pie .... Luverley |
Vince Hawthorn Posts: 12758 Joined: 19th Apr 2010 Location: UK | Posted at 21:15 on 8th July 2014 3.14159265358979323846---------------------------------------------------------- |
Dave John Posts: 22335 Joined: 27th Feb 2011 Location: England | Posted at 21:36 on 8th July 2014 ( R ) Squared |
Ron Brind Posts: 19041 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England | Posted at 21:39 on 8th July 2014 Maths Who's a clever boy then? lol |
Dave John Posts: 22335 Joined: 27th Feb 2011 Location: England | Posted at 21:48 on 8th July 2014 Arithmetic 45 years ago I last use any of that rubbish ..... and I failed my O-level maths before you start ... I hated maths |
Vince Hawthorn Posts: 12758 Joined: 19th Apr 2010 Location: UK | Posted at 22:04 on 8th July 2014 Log -Tables. Anyone remember using them prior to all the calculators? When I first started as a surveyor in 1969 we had to compute traverses with log tables to 9 or10 decimal places, then basic calculators started to come in and a simple one back then was about £50. |
Dave John Posts: 22335 Joined: 27th Feb 2011 Location: England | Posted at 22:18 on 8th July 2014 Algebra What use was that!!!! You can get an all singing all dancing calc now for a fiver ... if not less |
Vince Hawthorn Posts: 12758 Joined: 19th Apr 2010 Location: UK | Posted at 22:25 on 8th July 2014 Equations. I know , but that was cutting edge in them days. the scientific calculators with polar <-> rectangular coordinate conversions was would have been at least £250. |
Dave John Posts: 22335 Joined: 27th Feb 2011 Location: England | Posted at 22:29 on 8th July 2014 Pythagorus Didn't they force some rubbish into our heads |
Vince Hawthorn Posts: 12758 Joined: 19th Apr 2010 Location: UK | Posted at 22:37 on 8th July 2014 Theorum. Don't they still do that? we just sort the wheat from the chaff better these days. |