I saw a slide rule momentarily on the Alton Brown "Good Eats" food
show on Food Network last weekend. He was talking about the highly
non-linear ratio of water to rice as the volume of rice is increased.
Then he whipped out of a drawer what appeared to be an K& E rule, and
quickly running the slide and cursor back and forth, saying something
to the effect that one could resort to calculating the amount of
water needed but it probably wasn't worth the effort. This may have
been a repeat as I think the copyright date at the credis was 1999.

I think Brown is very funny and informative guy but I have to wait
until my wife is out of the room to watch it.

Marion Moon