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 last sat a maths exam in 1946 when he used a slide rule, but this time he had a calculator and a magnifying glass to help with his poor eyesight.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2022

There were several colors of pencils, even a slide rule, at which she was frowning.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen