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(1) FOUR plates contain five figure tables of 10x,1010x, arc sin 10x, arc tan 10x. The four slides consist of tables of 10x 10-x, 102x. By aligning the slides on the appropriate plate all the usual slide rule calculations which depend on log x and log log x can be performed. The alignment needs great care if a wrong reading is to be avoided.
(1) The Macmillan Table Slide Rule.
By Prof. J. P. Ballantine. Pp. 4 + 4 slides + 4 plates. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1931.) 2s. 3d.
(2) Natural Trigonometric Functions to Seven Decimal Places for every Ten Seconds of Arc, together with Miscellaneous Tables.
By Howard Chapin Ives. Pp. vi + 329. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1931.) 45s. net.
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M.-T, L. (1) The Macmillan Table Slide Rule (2) Natural Trigonometric Functions to Seven Decimal Places for every Ten Seconds of Arc, together with Miscellaneous Tables. Nature 129, 9 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129009b0
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