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How is it possible for a slide rule to calculate the product or quotient of two numbers?

April 26, 2017CALCULATE Mathematics Numbers possible Product quotient rule slide

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How is it possible for a slide rule to calculate the product or quotient of two numbers?

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the numbers of a slide rule are in a logarithmic scale, so a * b becomes log(a) + log(b): multiplication becomes shifting a fixed distance for each a and b in the same way a/b is turned into log(a) – log(b)