slide rule

Summary

slide rule ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,165 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• slide rule's image is recorded as Sliderule 2005.jpg^[2].
• slide rule's based on is recorded as Gunter's line^[3].
• slide rule's GND ID is recorded as 4177168-0^[4].
• slide rule's subclass of is recorded as physical tool^[5].
• slide rule's subclass of is recorded as calculating tool^[6].
• slide rule's subclass of is recorded as non-electrical analog device^[7].
• slide rule's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00565380^[8].
• slide rule's Commons category is recorded as Slide rules^[9].
• slide rule's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 21689^[10].
• slide rule's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/073r0^[11].
• slide rule's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph136560^[12].
• slide rule's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Slide rules^[13].
• slide rule's Commons gallery is recorded as Slide rules^[14].
• slide rule's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 681.14^[15].
• slide rule's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 510.284^[16].
• slide rule's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[17].
• slide rule's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana^[18].
• slide rule's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia^[19].
• slide rule's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[20].
• slide rule's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 4^[21].
• slide rule's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/slide-rule^[22].
• slide rule's MathWorld ID is recorded as SlideRule^[23].
• slide rule's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as slide-rules^[24].
• slide rule's schematic is recorded as Slide rule example2 with labels.svg^[25].
• slide rule's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics^[26].

Why It Matters

slide rule ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,165 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[27] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[28]