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
At the burial site Ms. Walls, Mr. Walls and Mr. Taylor said a few words and placed a notepad, pencil, slide rule and compass on top of the coffin.
From New York Times • Mar. 18, 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
For that exam, he said, he brought a slide rule with him.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 2022
The parting in his short gray hair was almost unnaturally straight, and his narrow toothbrush mustache looked as though he trimmed it using a slide rule.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
