What's the significance of this?

whitefork · Post by **whitefork** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 12:36 pm

It's a zipped Excel spreadsheet. What's it mean?

whitefork · Post by **whitefork** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 7:22 pm

bump.
a clue - it took about 20 years for the creator to assemble this table.

Sundog · Post by **Sundog** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:43 pm

Where's the code for that answer box?

One word:

Napier!

whitefork · Post by **whitefork** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:57 pm

Right, boy wonder.

Sundog · Post by **Sundog** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:12 pm

Holy logarithms, Batman, that one was hard!

whitefork · Post by **whitefork** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:17 pm

Just out of curiousity, did you happen to know that or did you research it?

My source was E: The Story of a Number by Maor - he describes the method used in constructing the table. This is a good summary: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NapierianLogarithm.html

Sundog · Post by **Sundog** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:20 pm

Doctor Mabuse wrote:Just out of curiousity, did you happen to know that or did you research it?

My source was E: The Story of a Number by Maor - he describes the method used in constructing the table. This is a good summary: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NapierianLogarithm.html

The gaps in the numbers made me suspicious that it had something to do with logarithms, and the twenty-year time period gave it away. To be honest I didn't remember that it was Napier's work; I had to look that up.