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
William Oughtred, who introduced the x symbol, also invented the slide rule, some ten years earlier.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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