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Re: recommendation for slide rule ?
From: Dave Walden
Date: 2009 May 21, 06:38 -0700
From: Dave Walden
Date: 2009 May 21, 06:38 -0700
An online emulator: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~joela/SLIDE/#rules Chose Unique Navigational. ns...@hotmail.com wrote: > Gary, > > British brand UNIQUE offered several sliderules of cheap construction, but > interesting scale layouts. Among them was so called "Unqiue navigational". In > addition to normal log scales it featured sine and tangent scales located both > on slide rule body AND slide. Allegedly this would make certain trig > calculations easy. > > Whould it be more convenient to calculate a celestial fix with this layout? If not, what other navigational calculations would be simplified? > > Unique Navigational may be seen on various places on the internet, for example > here: > http://www.mathsinstruments.me.uk/page14.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---