Traction on Brass vice Stainless rail

[stockers]

What?

 

[trammayo]

What?

I'll second that!

 

[Ralphmp]

This "may" help explain...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zsnbr82/revision/4

Man was I glad all I had to master was EXCP commands when I first started out in IT many years ago.

 

[trammayo]

This "may" help explain...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zsnbr82/revision/4

Man was I glad all I had to master was EXCP commands when I first started out in IT many years ago.

I get it (I think) - but my brain would be overloaded!

 

[stockers]

Ditto. Bring back logarithms - or actually, don't!

 

[penylanpip]

I rather enjoyed using logarithms - which probably reinforces my family's opinion of my weirdness.

Before decimalisation, it was necessary to use them in order to allocate funds where I worked, as you can't apportion £sd in a ratio.
Once my 'weirdness' was known around the office, folk would casually walk past my desk and one of their cases needing such division would miraculously appear at my side...

 

[Tas devil]

That's clever. Statistically speaking 8 out of 5 people cannot do fractions......

David

What's that in percentages?

 

[Fred Mills]

Keep it simple, don't try to build a railroad where the track gains more than 3 inches in ten feet, much less on curves...that's all you need to know.....no complicated math....very unsophisticated...but it works......."KEEP IT SIMPLE, stupid", is the rule around here

 

[G-force1]

No guessing or calculating that in my book is 1:40. Which in actual fact is fairly steep for a railway, but do-able, coz I have 15mtrs of it.

 

[Paul M]

Fractions are easy, try multiplying Mantissa and exponents and fractional at that!!
This was my job troubleshooting main frames years ago.

No need, we've got abacuses these days