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    computations more easily. Using logarithm tables, tedious multi-digit multiplication steps can be replaced by table look-ups and simpler addition. This...
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    (base 10) logarithms, which were easier to use. Tables of logarithms were published in many forms over four centuries. The idea of logarithms was also...
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    Leonelli, Zecchini (1803) [1802]. Supplément logarithmique. Théorie des logarithmes additionels et diductifs (in French). Bordeaux: Brossier. (NB. 1802/1803...
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    already compiled a table of what in fact were effectively natural logarithms in 1619. It has been said that Speidell's logarithms were to the base e,...
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    use of logarithms avoided laborious and error-prone paper-and-pencil multiplications and divisions. Because logarithms were so useful, tables of base-10...
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    Euler published a table of binary logarithms of the integers from 1 to 8, to seven decimal digits of accuracy. The binary logarithm function may be defined...
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  • Jean-François Callet (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    influential work was a portable table of logarithms (based on the work of William Gardiner) Tables Portatives de Logarithmes published in 1795 which went...
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  • Binary logarithm Bode plot Henry Briggs Bygrave slide rule Cologarithm Common logarithm Complex logarithm Discrete logarithm Discrete logarithm records...
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  • ^{5}.} Gaussian logarithm Irish logarithm, a similar technique derived empirically by Percy Ludgate Finite field arithmetic Logarithm table Zech, Julius...
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  • """Ludgate's Irish logarithm algorithm.""" return table2[table1[a] + table1[b]] Table 1 is taken from Ludgate's original paper; given the first table, the contents...
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    French under the inspection of the author (London, 1821) Canons de logarithmes de H. W., tables n° 1, n° 1 "bis", n° 2, n° 3, n° 3 "bis", n° 4, instructions...
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    the table of an appendix of a work on logarithms by John Napier. However, this did not contain the constant itself, but simply a list of logarithms to...
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  • done on natural logarithms. In 1619 Speidell published a table entitled "New Logarithmes" in which he calculated the natural logarithms of sines, tangents...
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  • Meier Hirsch [de] (also spelled Meyer Hirsch) in 1810. These tables were republished in the United Kingdom in 1823. More extensive tables were compiled...
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    COLLECTION of MATHEMATICAL TABLES". loria.fr. Vlacq, Adriaan (1651). "Tables de sinus, tangentes, secantes et de logarithmes des sinus, tangentes ... -...
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    1730 de Moivre published his book Miscellanea Analytica de Seriebus et Quadraturis [Analytic Miscellany of Series and Integrals], which included tables of...
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    Versine (redirect from Haversine logarithm)
    non-negative, so its logarithm is defined everywhere except for the single angle (θ = 0, 2π, …) where it is zero—thus, one could use logarithmic tables for multiplications...
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    geometry, tables of both "natural" trigonometric functions and their common logarithms were used, depending on the specific calculation. Using logarithms converts...
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    seconds to ten decimals, and including his tables of logarithms to 7 decimals from 10,000 to 100,000 with tables for obtaining results to 10 decimals. The...
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  • reduction potential converted at pH = 7 with other data directly taken from tables referring to SHE (pH = 0). The E h {\displaystyle E_{h}} and pH of a solution...
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  • formulas from trigonometry. For the 25 years preceding the invention of the logarithm in 1614, it was the only known generally applicable way of approximating...
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    (avec table des sinus et logarithmes) (1740) Traité complet de Gnomonique (1741) Essai sur les probabilités de la durée de la vie humaine (1746) ("Essay...
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    delegated to Briggs the computation of a revised table. The computational advance available via logarithms, the inverse of powered numbers or exponential...
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    multiplication by factors of two proved convenient enough that tables of haversine values and logarithms were included in 19th- and early 20th-century navigation...
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    with directions and tables for locating the moon and the planets of the Solar System. Included are function tables of logarithms (a useful computational...
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  • Renard series (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Logarithmentafel des Ingenieurs" [Preferred numbers - the engineer's single-digit logarithm table]. Werkstattechnik und Maschinenbau (in German). 43 (4): 156. Tuffentsammer...
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    reverse operation (the discrete logarithm) is thought to be a hard problem. Prime numbers are frequently used for hash tables. For instance the original method...
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    particular, his tables were intended for precise land surveys, as part of a greater cadastre effort. The tables were vast, calculating logarithms from 1 to...
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    Addition (redirect from Addition table)
    identity allows multiplication to be carried out by consulting a table of logarithms and computing addition by hand; it also enables multiplication on...
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  • Prime number theorem (category Logarithms)
    mathematical notation for logarithms. All instances of log(x) without a subscript base should be interpreted as a natural logarithm, commonly notated as ln(x)...
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