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Log Tables

lostmyway

While I have a good idea how log tables work, I'm still in the dark as to how they are compiled.

I gather some bloke name 'Napier' originally invented them but what method did he use?

Any mathematicians' contributions would be appreciated. 

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    lostmyway said:

    Yeah, but at least you can write the code in the first place!

    Took me long enough, though!  Nothing I've written is mathematically clever, though I do have my moments of... well, stuff that is compact and efficient, apparently.  I admit I'm guilty of the occasional instance of "drunk coding" in the early hours and I seem to be able to create stuff that works well but in hindsight without being able to fathom what on earth was going through my mind at the time.  My "helpful" commentary about whatever it was I did can be similarly esoteric.

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    lostmyway said:

    Yeah, but at least you can write the code in the first place!

    Took me long enough, though!  Nothing I've written is mathematically clever, though I do have my moments of... well, stuff that is compact and efficient, apparently.  I admit I'm guilty of the occasional instance of "drunk coding" in the early hours and I seem to be able to create stuff that works well but in hindsight without being able to fathom what on earth was going through my mind at the time.  My "helpful" commentary about whatever it was I did can be similarly esoteric.

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