[Elecraft] RPN Calc App For Android

[kevin]

Actually you are correct, you are adding.  However, you are adding 
logarithms.

    73 and have fun,

       Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 2/6/22 15:16, Byron Servies wrote:
> Man, you are all going to laugh me off the platform for that dumb "add" comment.
>
> Let me have it. I deserve it.
>
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 3:11 PM Byron Servies <byron at n6nul.org> wrote:
>> When the Oughtred Society first published their slide rule reference
>> in 2005 I remember you could get it in a bundle with a copy of the
>> journal and a Nestler Polymath Duplex 6". Around the same time I
>> purchased a K&E 4181-3 Log Log Duplex Decitrig.
>>
>> Unfortunately my alma mater stopped having "slide rule calculation" as
>> a stage in the alumni vs current student race that year so my
>> incentive to learn went away.  Still here, though, waiting for an
>> appropriately lazy weekend to learn how to add.
>>
>> 73, Byron N6NUL
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 5:34 AM Gwen Patton <ardrhi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I collect slide rules. I've been an Oughtred Society member for years. 😁
>>>
>>> Just an example, I have the 20" K&E Log Log Duplex Decitrig in mahogany mentioned in Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel". It's my favorite.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Gwen, NG3P
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 5, 2022, 5:50 PM Byron Servies <byron at n6nul.org> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 9:11 AM Clark Macaulay <clark.macaulay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>   Oh, I still have my K&E Log Log Duplex Decitrig slide rule with mahogany rails.  Yup....I'm old.
>>>> For those of us who are younger but find slide rules fascinating, here
>>>> is a great reference:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.oughtred.org/
>>>>
>>>> Yes, there is a society dedicated to slide rules.
>>>>
>>>> 73, Byron N6NUL
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>>>> - www.cqp.org
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