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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 ...

LOGARITHMS, as anyone forced to use them at school will recall, can speed up the process of mathematical calculation dramatically. By representing numbers as logarithms (with the help of a slide-rule, ...

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 ...

In Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco's The Lesson, a professor asks a student to multiply 3,755,998,251 by 5,162,303,508. To his amazement, the answer comes quick ...