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Re: Naval Academy Goes Old School
« Reply #25 on: October 14, 2015, 10:16:34 PM »
^ Now that is cool!

Square root of pi is 1.772.  Either B to C or A to D scales.

Lay the cursor on the teeny-tiny mark for pi, and see for yourself.

Actual value 1.7724538509055160272981674833411 according to the Win calculator.  Using control + I blew the screen up quite a bit and started to notice little "hops" in sliding the scales and cursor around.
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Re: Naval Academy Goes Old School
« Reply #26 on: October 14, 2015, 10:20:47 PM »
So the Navy thinks that they better now how to navigate should the OPFOR be able to hack/otherwise disable the electronics on ships, while at the same time packing more electronics then ever into same ships (i.e. missles over guns).


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Re: Naval Academy Goes Old School
« Reply #27 on: October 15, 2015, 06:41:00 AM »
I think they are more worried about somebody disabling the satellites used for GPS.
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Re: Naval Academy Goes Old School
« Reply #28 on: October 15, 2015, 07:07:51 AM »
I like my slide rules like I like my cornbread...round.

E6b for the win.
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Re: Naval Academy Goes Old School
« Reply #29 on: October 15, 2015, 08:45:44 AM »
Hmmm....

Not 3691 in dec...

AHA!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B
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Re: Naval Academy Goes Old School
« Reply #30 on: October 15, 2015, 10:46:12 AM »
Quote from: Fly320s on October 15, 2015, 07:07:51 AM
I like my slide rules like I like my cornbread...round.

E6b for the win.

I don't even think I can read an E6B anymore without reading glasses, and I think I'd need a 4X magnifier to read the one on the watch I got as a gift when I soloed.
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Re: Naval Academy Goes Old School
« Reply #31 on: October 15, 2015, 11:26:13 AM »
the rapidity with which the Services dump known, working technology, never made me comfortable in the first place. 
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Re: Naval Academy Goes Old School
« Reply #32 on: October 15, 2015, 09:25:34 PM »
Quote from: Mannlicher on October 15, 2015, 11:26:13 AM
the rapidity with which the Services dump known, working technology, never made me comfortable in the first place. 

And then they'll turn around and hold on to antiques for no particular reason. In 1985 I was still working on equipment with vacuum tubes.
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Re: Naval Academy Goes Old School
« Reply #33 on: October 17, 2015, 07:30:25 AM »
Didn't the Russians hang on to vacuum tubes in navigational and communications equipment for quite a while?   I understood that that was why audiophiles and guitarists could still get vacuum tubes... from the Russians.
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