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Nitpick: a slide rule does have memory, but it is small and gets cleared when doing computations. One typically can store one number by moving the slide and another one by location of the cursor.

It also is fairly hard to hide the fact that the memory isn’t cleared.

Many slide rules also have some read-only memory, for example ’storing’ the constant π.

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