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    We had log tables in high school up until 1981 when they brought in the calculator subject. The calculator they pushed did log, sin, cos, stats functions plus a heap of other functions you'd probably never use.

    Our maths master had a portable programmable calculator in 1977-78. He was the only person allowed to use it. It was the size of a cash register and it ran on 240 volts. It was programmed by means of a paper tape. He spent hours once creating a loop program, which he had great pride in displaying to us in class one day. It did some calculations that resulted in a random number between 0.1 and 0.111111111 every half second or so, which only ever contained ones below the decimal place. When he turned the thing on it's side, it looked like a digital yo yo. That was the culmination of a degree in mathematics and a year's worth of maths department budget.

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    Congratulations to you Scott, your neighbour and the kid you tutored.

    There should be more people like the lot of you but then there would be heaps of lawyers, policemen and soldiers on the dole.
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    Hi Scott,

    That's a really good illustration of giving something, and being surprised and charmed by the rewards (and I don't just mean the book, thoughtful and lovely as it was) that can come back.

    Obviously the family of your student were pretty impressed, and hopefully he can build on what you've taught him.

    Great tale, my friend!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wongo View Post
    Log tables??:eek: Are they the same things as the "4 figures tables"?

    Well we called them the "4 figure tables" in HK. It is how you find the value of log(x) or cos(x) etc without a calculator.

    Man that's so ancient.
    Yep; so ancient I recall using them at school

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    Wonderful story mister Wongo Maloof - now no dominoing the joints okay
    Cheers

    TEEJAY

    There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"

    (Man was born to hunt and kill)

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    Quote Originally Posted by TEEJAY View Post
    Wonderful story mister Wongo Maloof - now no dominoing the joints okay
    And why not?! Maloof was quite fond of loose tenons!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Auld Bassoon View Post
    And why not?! Maloof was quite fond of loose tenons!
    CHOMP !

    Yeah I know I'm just jealous
    Cheers

    TEEJAY

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    Wongo,

    YOU are my HERO!!

    Seriously though Scott, congrats!! It's a good feeling to see someone you have tutored put it all together & run with it.
    It's only happened to me a few times when I was running photography courses.

    Now.......how come the attached picture is SMALLER than the thumbnail...:confused: :confused: :confused:
    Cheers

    Major Panic

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