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IN order that mathematical tables intended for common use may serve their purpose, it is essential that great attention be paid to the labour-saving arrangements which authors have from time to time ...

Logarithms are a common idea today, even though we don’t use them as often as we used to. After all, one of the major uses of logarithms is to simplify computations, and computers do that just fine ...

IN the preface Prof. Peirce writes:—“Logarithms ought not to be comprised, as they often are, in the midst of a treatise on algebra. For, in the first place, they are not algebraic functions; and, ...

There was a time not so long ago when calculators weren’t standard equipment for computations. The log() button did not exist, and some math had to be done by hand. John Napier and his logarithm ...