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Experimenting with how to create a Javascript logarithmic input control.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2022-04-11 · latest 2026-09-05

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  1. …interacted with): https://www.engineersneedart.com/ohmslaw/index.html Sources (such as they are): https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SlideRule
    comment by JKCalhoun · 2026-09-05 · in Can guitar frets perform multiplication?
  2. …site like the one in this post have some kind of interactive slide rule on the web page itself. [1] https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SlideRule [2] https://www.engineersneedart.com/ohmslaw/index.html (the yellow slider is not directly…
    comment by JKCalhoun · 2025-11-19 · in How Slide Rules Work
  3. …I don't exactly know what I am doing when I venture into Javascript and web stuff but here you go: https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SlideRule There's a demo page off the link above. It's a janky Ohm's Law calculator. (The top slider &…
    comment by JKCalhoun · 2024-05-09 · in Logarithmic Scales
  4. …a slide rule UI/object/thing for the web. My knowledge of Web is limited: got as far as this: https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SlideRule
    comment by JKCalhoun · 2023-09-03 · in An intuition for logarithms
  5. …(5th screenshot shows it): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/perfboard/id46595187 [2] SlideRule.js: https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SlideRule
    comment by JKCalhoun · 2022-04-11 · in Why a Slide Rule Works