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Re: green stars

From William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written, sci.physics
Subject Re: green stars
Date 2015-10-09 13:19 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <mv8ss4$9vi$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <PM0005216FEF28A86B@aca41669.ipt.aol.com> <5K2dnZbXR87wN4jLnZ2dnUU7-TmdnZ2d@giganews.com> <d7mm0aF4l4jU1@mid.individual.net> <mv5n19$s4e$1@panix3.panix.com> <d7p439Fng61U2@mid.individual.net>

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Greg Goss wrote:
> wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) wrote:
>
>> In article <d7mm0aF4l4jU1@mid.individual.net>,
>> Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> said:
>> 
>>> The "rubber book" I got cheap in 1975 because it was the previous
>>> edition was, I think, the last edition to include log and trig
>>> tables.  The next edition was a fifth the size because you were
>>> expected to do trig on your calculator.
>> 
>> You're talking about the rubber math book, right?  For me at least,
>> unadorned "rubber book" defaults to meaning the three-inch-thick
>> Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, which for as long as they keep
>> publishing it on paper (do they still?) is unlikely to ever slim down
>> very much.
>
> The three inch 4400 (thin) page book was replaced by one about an inch
> and a half thick, once they didn't have to do the math tables anymore.
>
>> (Still have my "52nd Edition, 1971-1072" edition.  Admittedly, more
>> because you never know when a 3x8x11" chunk of matter is going to come
>> in handy than because I ever look anything up in it, but still.)
>
They changed the format of the solubility tables for chemicals around 
1979, so it only listed what the stuff was soluble in, and you had to 
guess what the insolubilities were by omission.  That was the only 
important change I ever noticed.  For me, it made the book half as 
useful.

There's another one, _Lange's Handbook of Chemistry_ that's similar, 
that I've always liked better.

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