On 26/07/15 05:58, Felmon Davis wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, Harvey Nimmo wrote:On Sat, 2015-07-25 at 14:54 -0400, James Knott wrote:On 07/25/2015 09:35 AM, Graham P Davis wrote: > We only had log tables; standard slide rules weren't allowed as they> were too inaccurate. Drifting a bit more OT, ball-point pens weren't allowed either, only fountain pens.>> To put this in some sort of perspective, I left school in 1962 aged 18.Did they have slide rules way back then? ;-) We used them in physics and electricity & electronics classes.Yes, that was shortly after they finally ditched the abacusand thus ends this excursus into archaic calculation devices.(though I do wonder when people learned to use fingers or digits to count...<g>.)f.
This seems to be degenerating into the the Four Yorkshiremen -luxury! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted