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badlibrarianyesterday at 11:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

The physical version of that magic wormhole is called a slide rule.


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erutoday at 3:09 AM

Another neat application, if a bit simplistic, are these mechanical paper computer that let you figure out your body-mass-index. They are basically two disks with logarithmic scales on them that you rotate relative to each other. Like a slide-rule, but circular. I think you can find them under the name 'BMI wheel'.