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Postby whitefork »
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
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.