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PERHAPS the best way of treating this work, which does not contain a single word of explanation, will be to give a summary of the tables contained in it. First we have proportional parts of all numbers up to 100; then on one page three-place logarithms of numbers and of the six trigonometric functions, natural and logarithmic. On pages 4 and 5 we find four-place logarithms of numbers, then logarithms of sums and differences (Gaussian logarithms) also to four places, then follow tables of logarithmic trigonometric functions, inverse trigonometric functions (a new table, to which attention is specially invited, for finding angles from the logarithms of their trigonometric functions), traverse table, the correction of the middle latitude (in an improved form), and meridional parts.
Three and Four Place Tables of Logarithmic and Trigonometric Functions.
By James Mills Peirce. 16 pp. (Boston: Ginn Brothers, 1871.)
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T., R. Three and Four Place Tables of Logarithmic and Trigonometric Functions . Nature 5, 200 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005200a0
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