Badalamenti’s Factorization slide rule

The Badalamenti factorization slide rule

One of the strangest slide rules in my collection, this ingenious Italian device from the 1950s allows you to factorize numbers into their prime factors in an instant. Just move the “Bull’s eye” cursor to the number you wish to examine and the crisscrossing lines and symbols line up to give you the answer.

Check it out on my History of Computing site!

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2 Responses to “Badalamenti’s Factorization slide rule”


  1. 1 John Weeks

    is there a video?

  2. 2 Nathan Zeldes

    Sorry – nope… no video.

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