Computing logarithms by hand

• Autores: B. Cameron Reed, Brian M. Dean (ed. lit.), Daniel Ness (ed. lit.), Nick Wasserman (ed. lit.)
• Localización: Mathematics teacher, ISSN-e 2330-0582, ISSN 0025-5769, Vol. 109, Nº 8, 2016, págs. 633-636
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • How can old-fashioned tables of logarithms be computed without technology? Today, of course, no practicing mathematician, scientist, or engineer would actually use logarithms to carry out a calculation, let alone worry about deriving them from scratch. But high school students may be curious about the process.