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| ``Re: Logarithms: Something more is needed''
by PrimeFan on 2008-06-13 15:12:32 |
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| rspuzio writes:
"It would be good if that something were explained in the entry on
logarithm tables. Along those lines, I would suggest the following
improvements. Change the title to "logarithm tables", then add
a short table of base 10 logarithms and add some text explaining
how log tables were used to multiply and divide numbers in the
old days. While this may not be of much contemporary relevance, it
is a part of the recent history of mathematics, so it definitely
is worth describing in order to round out our account of math."
I couldn't have put it better myself. In fact, I wasn't able to put it at all earlier. I remember Ray's excellent entry "How to use a table," and something along those lines is called for here. I can't do it today, though, I have some mundane matters to attend to which will distract me for the rest of today. Perhaps tomorrow I can come back to this, but in the interim I won't mind if anyone else wants to address this deficiency. |
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