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
Walter Shawlee chanced upon a slide rule from high school while looking through a drawer at his home in Kelowna, British Columbia.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2024
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
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
William Oughtred, who introduced the x symbol, also invented the slide rule, some ten years earlier.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
