[Spridgets] Fractional Vernier Caliper

Chris King cbking at alum.rpi.edu
Thu Nov 12 12:25:21 MST 2009


I had one of those in high school in the late 80s. It was neat, and
occasionally useful.

-=Chris

Chris King
http://home.comcast.net/~kvcbk/

<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: David Lieb [72spridget at gmail.com]
>Sent: 11/12/2009 12:37:28 PM
>To: frog.aye at gmail.com;spridgets at autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Fractional Vernier Caliper
>
I recall a friend who had a Casio calculator in
>1977 that was able to accept fractions, display them as fractions,
>perform arithmetic functions on them and return the answer as a
>properly reduced fraction. I guess it never caught on.


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