Someone apparently never used calipers or slide rules.https://twitter.com/NegarestaniReza/status/1248950988695842820 …
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I learned how they operate from my dad when I was six. And yes, this is still something that is embedded in the German psyche, even if now everything is done by digital computer like everywhere else. Conceptually we still inhabit a fundamentally analog world.
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I respect you Germans, bunch of metric nazis up to nanometer, the greatest engineers on this wretched planet. I agree, we still inhabit in a fundamentally analog world by the virtue of the concept of computation being not sufficiently made explicit and available on the curriculum
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A better example would be a logarithmic ruler.
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