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On an easy method of forming Logarithms and Anti-Logarithms correct to ten or eleven places, with the aid of Mr. Peter Gray's tables for the formation of Logarithms and Anti-Logarithms to twelve places

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

D. J. McG. McKenzie
D. J. McG. McKenzie
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Institute of Actuaries
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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , January 1884 , pp. 243 - 251
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1884

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page 243 note * London, Laytons, 1865.

page 243 note † Laytons, 1876.

page 243 note ‡ Vide Article “Logarithms”, by J. W. L. Glaisher, F.R.S., Vol. XIV of the Encyclopædia Britannica, recently issued.

page 243 note § I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. H. W. Manly for the arrangement of the formulas.

page 250 note * Given in “Tables de logarithmes a cinq décimates, pour les noinbres ei les lignes trigonométrioues, suivies des logarithmes d'addition et de soustraction, on logarithmes de Gauss, et de diverses Tables usnelles”, Paris, 1858.

page 250 note † “Méthode nouvelle pour calculer rapidement les logarithmes des nombres et pour trouver les nombres correspondant aux logarithmes; précédées d'un Rapport fait à l'Académie des Sciences”. Par M. Philippe Koralek. Paris, 1851. A succinct account of Koralek's method may be seen in Galbraith, and Haughton's, Manual of Algebra (3rd Edition, London, 1867), pp. 379–386 Google Scholar.