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For questions about the quantitative study of topics such as numbers, structure, space, and change, carried out by investigating patterns

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Logarithm tables vs multiplication tables

When John Napier and Joost Burgi developed logarithms in the 16th century, they succeeded in replacing long, tedious, error-prone multiplications with table-look-up and addition, giving other mathemat …
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