I have a job coming up where electronic security is incredibly tight. I'll be locked in a room for 8 hours a day and allowed no digital devices of any kind as I'll be dealing with some fairly sensitive data, and so i can't even take in a calculator. I also have to walk through an airport scanner thingy and a massively powerful magnet just to make sure.
Anywho, in getting ready for this job, I realise that I'm going to have to do some sums - lots of multiplication and division.
I could do it all long hand, but this doesn't seem very productive. So I was thinking that a slide rule might be useful. The problem is that I don't actually know how to use one.
I have read a few tutorials on the web, but they don't make a lot of sense to me.
I was wondering if anyone here has used on and could give me a bit of a crash course, preferably with a couple of worked examples.
However, I can't take in any books etc to the job either, so if I need log tables to use a slide rule, then the plan is not a good one.
<<I'm not sure WHY I think log tables are involved. I'm sure the old man used to use a slide rule with log tables, but I have no idea what he was doing with them>>
Ta
Steve