I have several real slide rules at home, and I still know how to use them. I could not afford an electronic calculator until 1976, when I got an HP-21.
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Tag Archives: high school
Friend in the News
Sister Edith Bogue, blogging nun or ‘Monastic Musings’: The Blogging Nun. See also Sr. Edith’s comments at Musing on Musings in the News.
Knitting and Faith
Faith Lessons from Knitting. Sister Edith is one of my oldest friends–I think I met her back in 1967. She is a classmate from both High School and College, and was a fellow folk dancer at Carleton.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 