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Using a slide rule showed Michelle Francl where chemists' calculations are still stuck in the past.

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The author would like to thank Lisa Balbes for sharing her material on slide rules and Curta mechanical calculators.

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  1. Michelle Francl is in the Department of Chemistry at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010-2899, USA, and at the Vatican Observatory, V-00120, Vatican City State,

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