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
That set off a series of events that led him to corner the world slide rule market.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2024
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
For that exam, he said, he brought a slide rule with him.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 2022
William Oughtred, who introduced the x symbol, also invented the slide rule, some ten years earlier.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
