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Logarithms Explained: Everything You Need to Know

A logarithm is the power which a certain number is raised to get another number. Before calculators and various types of complex computers were invented it was difficult for scientists and ...
Nature

Mathematical Tables, chiefly to Four Figures

THIS is a well-arranged and clearly printed book of forty-three octavo pages. Besides four figure logarithms of numbers and of circular functions, and the circular functions themselves, it contains a ...
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Mathematical Tables, Automatic Arithmetic: A New System for Multiplication and Division without Mental Labour and without the Use of Logarithms

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The title of this bound set of tables ...
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Tableaux logarithmiques, A et B Clive's Mathematical Tables Five-figure Mathematical Tables for School and Laboratory Purposes

DR. GUILLEMIN'S two tables possess several interesting features. Taking, in the first place, Table A, which is used for working to six places of decimals, this contains the antilogarithms, calculated ...
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Mathematical tables : difference of latitude and departure : logarithms, from 1 to 10,000 : and artificial sines, tangents, and secants

Frequently issued with the treatises on surveying of John Gummere, Robert Gibson, and Zachariah Jess. Authorship has been ascribed to Gummere, Gibson, and also to John Robertson. "Stereotyped by J.
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Clearing a logjam

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. What a difference a century makes. In 1914 the most prominent historians of mathematics gathered to celebrate the 300th anniversary of ...