Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-t5tsf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-11T10:48:13.142Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Slide Rule in the Teaching of Logarithms and Indices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

E.J. Atkinson
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

A Logarithm as generally understood and used by the ordinary student is the expression of a number as a power of 10. In order to multiply two numbers together he adds the logarithms of these numbers and takes as the result the anti-logarithm of this sum. Similarly for division he takes the anti-logarithm of the difference of the logarithms of the two numbers.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 18 , Issue 228 , May 1934 , pp. 108 - 111
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1934

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)