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    9 hours ago

    All my vehicles. Slide rules. Drafting table & drafting equipment. Fountain pens. Typewriters. Tanker desks. Cutlery, pots, pans, the fancy dishes (Thomas Rosenthal Arcta, close to 60yo), a fair number of tools, a few pieces of furniture. A large number of hardcover books. And likely a whole bunch of stuff I have forgotten is that old.

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        4 hours ago

        For simple chained operations they can be noticeably faster than an electronic calculator.

        And unless you are getting the circumference of the universe down to a few angstroms, the precision is absolutely adequate for everyday use.