You are lucky to be able to run 440 yards at all.
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Another excuse for more failures:-)
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The users in this case does not select the font: It (SYMBOL) is embedded in the WORD document, so the platform will use it if it has it, or select the nearest it thinks will suffice.
In my case I didn't have it, but it found one that showed the correct dot. Ive installed SYMBOL now as it is handy for these edge cases.
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and he got knighted.
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I had one of those Sinclair calculators; it cost me about £18 - £20. It had a flip-case of the "Beam me up, Scotty" type. The hinge was simply a flexing of the plastic joining the two halves.
I wonder what ever happened to it?
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A beast of a calculator! And $4400 in the late 60s.
FSVO "not long after" (1974).
And had constants like pi printed on the top.
I have a memory of a Sinclair Scientific that used a PP3 battery which bulged out of the back and was provided with a stand so you could use it flat on a desk. I can't find out what that was; there's the Sinclair Scientific Programmable which uses a PP3, but that's much bigger.
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I built one from a kit. It worked.
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And at school you had to become as fluent with it as your intellect would allow. Otherwise you were thrashed.
Bill
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I was taking dinner money.
5 x 1/9d = 8/9d. 1/9d = 9p 5 x 9p = 45p 8/9d = 44p. 44p ? 45p.Massive trouble ensued.
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I do.
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I have slide rule-type-thing that is marked in dB, mV, and µV.
Bill
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I'm pretty sure I could still install one of these!
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Definitely. And also for maths CSE.
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We had to do them in the 60s.
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Round about 1965, when I was learning about logs at school, one of my two IBM uncles said, "Waste of time. When you're grown up you'll have a gadget in your top pocket that will do all your sums." His prophesy came true when I was about 25.
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My grandchildren don't believe anything I tell them about the olden days. I mentioned 'the blackboard' and I simply wasn't believed.
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I did say basic Bill.
I have just picked up my Aristo Scholar dating from around 1965! That has X2, X3 log X,eX, e0.1X, Sin. and a lot of other scales I have never needed to know:-)
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1954 for me.
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I got 3 whacks when the geography master scrolled the board round to the bit I had hit with a miss aimed apple core:-(
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We had a very strict and stern maths teacher, but (just) managed to get away with it when we labelled the blackboard as broken and not to be moved, so he spent the whole 80 minute lesson using a small section of board (the rest of what was showing was whiteboard) and then as the lesson finished and we all walked out, one of us spun the board hard, so it did at least two laps.