Or the slide rule, for assisting with multiplication and division.

或者计算尺，用于辅助乘法和除法。

Oh, and the phones, of course, mechanical typewriters and slide rules then, no fancy laptops and cell phones.

还有电话，当然，还有机械打字机和计算尺，没有花哨的笔记本电脑和手机。

Nobody uses a slide rule, unless you go to maybe Oxford in the 1960s.

没有人使用计算尺， 除非你在 1960 过牛津大学。

Right? So, what is a slide rule?

正确的？那么， 什么是计算尺？

And the slide rule was just a kind of physical incarnation of that.

计算尺只是它的一种物理化身。

That could never have been done with the slide rules of NASA in 1972.

这在1972用美国宇航局的滑尺是绝对无法完成的。

But this was a manual for how to use this slide rule, which is enormously important.

这本手册是关于如何使用计算尺的，其重要性不言而喻。

It's that when you use the slide rule, at a certain point, you're essentially needing to estimate your result.

当您使用计算尺时，在某个时刻，您本质需要估计您的结果。

I have a fondness for the slide rule as an object.

很喜欢计算尺这个物体。

In this book, he talks about a compass, which is not a magnetic compass, but an actual slide rule.

在这本书中，他谈到了一个指南针，这个指南针并非磁性指南针，而是一个真正的计算尺。

My father graduated with a degree in mathematics, and I remember seeing slide rules around his house.

父亲毕业时获得了数学学位，记得在他家里看到过计算尺。

The slide rule made calculations a lot faster and less error-prone than using the log charts and pen and paper.

与使用日志图表和笔和纸相比，计算尺使计算速度更快且更不易出错。

And this means that if all you have is a slide rule, you have to simplify it.

这意味着如果你只有一把计算尺，你就必须简化它。

Then he brought in some books on mathematics and physics and other things, and a bunch of slide rules, calculators, and junk.

然后他拿来了一些关于数学和物理及其他学科的书籍，还有一堆计算尺、计算器和其他杂物。

The parting in his short gray hair was almost unnaturally straight, and his narrow toothbrush mustache looked as though he trimmed it using a slide rule.

他银色的短发几乎被不自然地梳得笔直，他的短小胡子，像是比着滑尺修剪过的。

When I visited my dad's house, I would marvel at the slide rules that he had in his junk drawer.

当参观父亲的房子时，会对他的垃圾抽屉里的计算尺感到惊讶。

The guy with blueprints; the guy in a three-piece suit; the guy with a slide rule and calculator; the guy that's going to pave the forest and perhaps destroy whole ecosystems.

这些人带着蓝图，穿着三件套西装，随身携带着卷尺和计算器，这些人会在森林里修路，甚至可能摧毁整个生态系统。

So, the calculator–the thing that we might recognize as a calculator–kind of has to have a different form because the slide rule's form isn't cutting it.

因此，计算器——们可能认为是计算器的东西——必须有不同的形式，因为计算尺的形式不能满足它的需要。

In other words, you can model things with great predictability and accuracy using supercomputers that you couldn't possibly do sitting with a slide rule or sitting with Traditional mathematics.

换句话说，你可以使用超级计算机以极高的预测性和准确性来建模，这是你用计算尺或传统数学方法根本无法做到的。

And then really the next big innovation is a thing called the " slide rule." The slide rule was a major innovation that came along in the 1600s.

真正的下一个重大创新是一种叫做“计算尺”的东西。计算尺是 1600 出现的一项重大创新。