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Logarithmetica Britannica

Logarithmetica Britannica

Being a Standard Table of Logarithms to Twenty Decimal Places of the Numbers 10,000 to 100,000. By Dr. Alexander John Thompson. Vol. 1: Numbers 10,000 to 50,000, together with a general introduction. Pp. xcviii + Tables. Vol. 2: Numbers 50,000 to 100,000. Pp. iv + Tables. (Issued by the Department of Statistics, University College, London, to commemorate the tercentenary of Henry Briggs' publication of the Arithmetica Logarithmica, 1624.) (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1952.) £8 8s. net the set.

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MILLER, J. Logarithmetica Britannica. Nature 174, 1028–1029 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/1741028a0

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