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Re: Geeks [slide] rule!
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2013 Mar 30, 22:59 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2013 Mar 30, 22:59 -0700
World's longest slide rule is now 350 feet, 6 1/2 inches set in 2001. http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/long521.html Prior to that, the record was 323 feet 9.5 inches in length completed on Nov 11, 1979 by Greg Maggs and Robert Kolstad at the University of Illinois College of Law Building in Champaign, Ill. Guiness Book of World Records, 1983, Sterling Publishing Co, New York, NY USA. This was laid out in the hall of my law school by Greg Maggs, the son of my "Contracts" professor. http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/recommendation-for-slide-rule-Bygrave-LaPook-may-2009-g8370 gl --- On Sat, 3/30/13, Norm Goldblatt <ngold@pacbell.net> wrote:
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