It is no secret that we like slide rules around the Hackaday bunker, and among our favorites are the cylindrical slide rules. [Chris Staecker] likes them, too, and recently even 3D printed a version.

We miss the slide rule. It isn’t so much that we liked getting an inexact answer using a physical moving object. But to ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This ten-inch aluminum linear slide ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This one-sided, ten-inch wooden slide ...

SOME modern writers attribute the invention of the rectilinear slide rule to Edmund Gunter, others to William Oughtred, but most of them to Edmund Wingate. This disagreement is due mainly to lack of ...

Investors have been trained to treat every pullback in the S&P 500 as a bargain, but the next leg down could be less of a ...

Randomization sits at the heart of tabletop gaming because it keeps outcomes uncertain while still following rules everyone ...

There is a rule in mathematics that feels so obvious it barely seems worth stating. Yet accepting it leads to objects with no size, spheres that duplicate themselves, and sets that cannot be measured ...

Experts note that Boomers were taught what to think, while modern students are taught how to find information. While Boomers ...

Make a double batch for burger night tonight, and stash the leftovers in the freezer for burger nights to come.

Argentina’s Treasury sold dollars Friday, people familiar with the matter said, looking to limit the decline of the peso on the first day that new rules allowing for larger swings kicked in. Traders ...