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[acmilan]

I thought involution was about raising things to powers

 

[rama_v]

I thought involution was about raising things to powers

Is that where real slide rules come into the picture? I mean aernt they used for that sort of thing?

 

[acmilan]

Is that where real slide rules come into the picture? I mean aernt they used for that sort of thing?

If i remember my informatics lectures right, then slide rules were used for logs and raising something to a power can easily be done with the use of logs.