Please add spaces between words: Myfathershowedmehisbeautifulivory-on-mahoganyslideruleinjuniorhighschool,andIquicklyrealiseditsidea.IwasallowedtousethenewFridencalculatingmachinewhich,shortlybeforeitstransformationintoarelic,couldalsoextractsquareroots.Ilovenumbersandalwaysasanamusement,andmoreseriouslythanthat,inventednewalgorithmstocalculatethem.
My father showed me his beautiful ivory-on-mahogany slide rule in junior high school, and I quickly realised its idea. I was allowed to use the new Friden calculating machine which, shortly before its transformation into a relic, could also extract square roots. I love numbers and always as an amusement, and more seriously than that, invented new algorithms to calculate them.