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BIGpedia - Slide rule - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online (2106 words) |
 | The slide rule is a portable, mechanical, analog computer usually consisting of three interlocking calibrated strips and a sliding cursor used to record intermediate results. |
| Traditionally slide rules were made out of hard wood such as mahogany or boxwood with slides of glass and metal. |
| A slide rule tends to moderate the fallacy of "false precision" and significance. |
| Ethic of reciprocity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3032 words) |
| The ethic of reciprocity (or the Golden Rule) is a general moral principle found in virtually all religions and culture, often as a fundamental rule, a fact which suggests that it may be related to innate aspects of human nature (see altruism). |
| A key element of the ethic of reciprocity is that a person attempting to live by this rule treats all people, not just members of his or her in-group, with consideration. |
| A logical loophole in the positive form of Golden "rule" is that it would require a masochist to harm others, even without their consent, if that is what the masochist would wish for themselves. |
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