"Dennis Lee Bieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> {My 8th grade teacher was a bit worried at seeing me with a slipstick > <G>; and my HighSchool Trig/Geometry teacher only required 3 significant > digits for answers -- even though half the class had calculators by > then} LOL - I haven't seen the word "slipstick" for yonks... I recall an SF character known as "Slipstick Libby", who was supposed to be a Genius - but I forget the setting and the author. It is something that has become quietly extinct, and we did not even notice. We should start a movement for reviving them - on grounds of their "greenness" - they use no batteries... Fat chance. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list