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Old 12-12-06, 12:00 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by geezerjo09
I'm not sure if it's because you don't likle the anachronism "feel" to using a calculator or if it's only because you don't like calculators, but im quite sure calculators did exist during ww2 (Can someone confirm/disprove this?). Anyways, the only thing youd have to use it for is Sine, cosine and tangent, THAT has been along for centuries. I don't know why the clever german captains should not take advantage of it.
Trigonometric functions yes, but then most commonly in the form of look up tables as far as I know. Unfortunatly I have trouble as it is to keep the plotting speedy enough to be usefull, so thats certainly not for me.
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