Hi Chris, HI Moose, Hi Mike, Hi Jim,
Chris posted on the OM List: "Did you
know you can add using a slide rule?"
Reminds me
of a joke a physicist friend told me:
Noah
was cleaning up the Ark after all the pairs of animals had
disembarked, and he came across a pair of snakes hiding in
the lower hold. "You can go now," said Noah. "Go forth,
and be fruitful and multiply."
"Ah,
but we can't multiply," replied one of the snakes sadly.
"You see, we're adders."
Noah
scratched his head, pondered for a moment, and then sent for
his sons for some help. In just a few minutes they had
gathered up some stray logs and constructed a table out of
these logs,
"Now,
snakes, you can use this," said Noah.
For Noah
knew that even adders can multiply on a log table.
Groan.