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Old 26th Jul 2010, 20:26
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The non-wind side of the CRAP-1 is just a standard slide rule, which is a 200 year old multiply/divide tool. It is bent around into a circle; that's all, and has marks at aviation-relevant places e.g. litre/gallon conversions (3.8) etc.

If you google on 'slide rule' you will see how it is used for mult/div.

Once you suss how to use a slide rule to divide 355/9 and then (mentally) put the d.p. in the right place, you are done. This process is in no way aviation (or CRAP-1) related.

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