I'm glad I'm not the only one who puts things down then immediately forgets where....
Me, some years ago now, and and before I owned a computer that holds a calculator.:
Awkard calculation for a hobby project, perhaps a difficult square-root or something like that; but anyway too hard for pen-and-paper.
Scientific calculator - I could not find it anywhere.
Errr... slide-rule. That was hiding as well, likely sulking because the calculator had displaced it.
Nothing for it: Logarithms. The pre-calculator necessity. Found a text-book with the appropriate tables, and used the example given for a little preliminary revision, though they are simple to use*. Successfully completed the calculation.
Next day: Bought new calculator. I was surprised to find that although portable telephones had shrunk almost to sensible shirt-pocket size, calculators had all expanded from pocket-size to roughly what would become "smart"-'phone size, but thicker.
Three weeks later: Searching for something else, opened a drawer, only to find the household gremlins had put the AWOL sum-box in there. I knew I hadn't put it there, of course...
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*Half of the Number's base-10 logarithm, read from the table, = the log. of the Number's square-root; the antilog. of that is the root itself. Not something I do regularly, but I can still remember the technique!
There are these moments where life seems to glitch. Logic, consequence and memory are all thrown out of the window as something happens that makes no freakin sense. We tend to put it down to our own mistake, but that's what THEY want us to do! 👀
@Bexsy she was on the bed when I found it, so I guess it’s possible she found it under the bed and brought it out?? I have no idea. Tonight I found her on my bed with my eyebrow brush 😅
