Ha! Scott, young man, my friend, yes, Calculus is math. MathCAD is good software to use. An English major always reads math text for fun! As well as microbiology, chemistry, geology, physics, trig, etc. 8)

Ha! Scott, young man, my friend, yes, Calculus is math. MathCAD is good software to use. An English major always reads math text for fun! As well as microbiology, chemistry, geology, physics, trig, etc. 8)

I prefer Matlab or Excel, depending on the application. I definitely plan on putting the final first though - I may make Sunday though, depending on my other finals schedule.

Doesn't anyone use slide rules anymore?

Matlab? Excellent choice, Chris. Take your final, the rest of us will go get whatever rocket you choose to fly on Sunday. Best of luck! Now, hit the books! 8)

Doesn't anyone use slide rules anymore?

Absolutely. I took mine apart and I use it as a straightedge when cutting carbon fabric................ 8)

Slipsticks? Ken, you're showing your age. I used to until those new-fangled calculators showed up! Check out Mike K's Web site: http://sliderulemuseum.com/

I found a slide rule the other day - a relic of the past that I packed away in a box. It turned up when I moved to Iowa. I showed it to my kid, who thought I was joking.

FWIW, I was STILL able to use it with some level of expertise. This is quite incredible, insomuch as I can't even remember where I parked 😯 It is even more amazing in that I am not a math geek. Gimme Shakespeare!!

JW

Hey, I'm not that old. OK, well maybe I am. Man, those things bring back bad memories. I still remember my first
TI-55 programmable calculator with a red led dot-matrix display. Bought it circa 1977. Now that was bleeding-edge.

Gimme Shakespeare!!

As You Like It... Act V, Scene I... CEL. "Why, how now, Ganymede? sweet Ganymede." Hey, JW, how did Shakespeare know about a Jupiter moon, hmmm? 8) And, the largest one in our solar system? 😯 Oh, that's right... he and Galileo were around at the same time.

Gimme Shakespeare!!

As You Like It... Act V, Scene I... CEL. "Why, how now, Ganymede? sweet Ganymede." Hey, JW, how did Shakespeare know about a Jupiter moon, hmmm? 8) And, the largest one in our solar system? 😯 Oh, that's right... he and Galileo were around at the same time.

Actually, as you and I are both astronomers, methinks you are asking a trick question? Most of the celestial bodies are named after characters from Greek mythology (and Ganymede was was a Trojan boy whom Zeus carried away to be cup bearer to the gods - my hunch is that Bill Shakespeare ripped of mythology 'cause he ran out of cool names).

Note I said MOST celestial names are from mythology. The moons of Uranus are named after PML kits 😆 In reality, the Uranian moons are all named after characters from Shakespeare... which I think is cool. PML then named a series of kits after some those moons - namely Ariel and Miranda. PML also named some kits after the Jovian moons of Io and Callisto....

Note I said MOST celestial names are from mythology. The moons of Uranus are named after PML kits

By Jove, you are correct, sir! Speaking of "the Calculus", Newton and that German brother of mine, Liebnitz, came later. 😉 Well, it's all Greek to me, my friend!

Note I said MOST celestial names are from mythology. The moons of Uranus are named after PML kits 😆 In reality, the Uranian moons are all named after characters from Shakespeare... which I think is cool. PML then named a series of kits after some those moons - namely Ariel and Miranda. PML also named some kits after the Jovian moons of Io and Callisto....

Moons, I thought they were named after Woman !!

Hey, I'm not that old. OK, well maybe I am. Man, those things bring back bad memories. I still remember my first
TI-55 programmable calculator with a red led dot-matrix display. Bought it circa 1977. Now that was bleeding-edge.

Hey I remember my Dad (he was an engineer) holding up a calculator, he had just bought in the late 70s showing my Mom. He said, this thing has more power than the computer we had at Egland (Air Force Base) that took up an entire room! Probly the same one Ken! MORE POWER LOL!!
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Scott e

Scott, I had one of those calculators, too. TI something or other. Plus in 1970 used an IBM 360 at DePauw University in Indiana, which DID take up a room and used punch cards, between my junior and senior year in high school. Great summer project and fun.