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Yes, he does, but normally he would use a modern calculator. In the past architects and engineers would use slide rules (which are essentially mathematical tables in ruler form. An important bit of kit for a house builder is a giant 3:4:5 triangle of wood, which creates a perfect right-angled joint; rather like a giant set square. That works because adding together the squares of 3 and 4 you have 25, which is the square of 5

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