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II. SOME few problems in astronomy and certain theories in pure mathematics require more than seven figures to be calculated. In these cases a large arithmometer is generally the most convenient. Ten-figure tables of logarithms may be obtained secondhand; or the required logarithms must be calculated.
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LUPTON, S. The Art of Computation for Purposes of Sciences 1 . Nature 37, 262–263 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037262a0
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