slide rule
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As MarketWatch has recently written, hedge-fund manager Harris “Kuppy” Kupperman, among others, has already run a slide rule over the math of the AI mania and found it comes up short.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 14, 2025
For about 350 years, humanity’s most innovative hand-held computer was something called a slide rule.
From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024
With an abacus and a slide rule, earlier helpmeets, you had to know something of the mathematical process.
From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023
He had a knack for math—“I used to do slide rule speed competitions,” he confesses—and majored in physics at Texas A&M University, College Station.
From Science Magazine • Jul. 27, 2022
When Werner asks for a slide rule, the professor slips one onto the desk immediately, having expected the request.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
