It is no secret that we like slide rules around the Hackaday bunker, and among our favorites are the cylindrical slide rules.

The linear fit for this plot gives the following ... How could you use two rubber bands to increase the mass range of your scale? Replace your ruler with a new scale that doesn't measure in ...

But a May 30 study in Science suggests it may look less like an evenly segmented ruler and more like a logarithmic ... people tend to map numbers on a linear scale, with the numerals evenly ...