Logarithms are a convenient way to express large numbers. Before the invention of calculators, the only alternative to slide rules was to use tables of logarithms. Some important formulae, also called ...

THESE tables aim at popularising logarithms. Like other four-figure tables they give the logarithms of numbers from 1000 to 9999. While the ordinary tables give these in one opening of two pages by ...

Log tables, invaluable in science, industry and commerce for 350 years, have been consigned to the scrap heap. But logarithms remain at the core of science, as a wide range of physical phenomena ...

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The Assurance Magazine, and Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 5 (OCTOBER, 1856), pp. 298-300 (3 pages) This item is openly available as part of an ...

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 ...