Napier's bones is a manually-operated calculating device created by John Napier of Merchiston, Scotland for the calculation of products and quotients... 35 KB (2,897 words) - 22:45, 14 April 2024 |
was Ioannes Neper. John Napier is best known as the discoverer of logarithms. He also invented the so-called "Napier's bones" and made common the use... 31 KB (4,077 words) - 15:08, 24 April 2024 |
already popularly used and known as Napier's bones, was a set of rods inscribed with the multiplication table. Napier coined the word rabdology (from Greek... 4 KB (489 words) - 12:47, 8 April 2024 |
mathematician John Napier and described in his book Rabdologiae in which he also described Napier's bones. It is an extension of Napier's Bones, using two sets... 10 KB (1,578 words) - 04:59, 1 February 2022 |
advances were made until John Napier devised his numbering rods, or Napier's Bones, in 1617. Various forms of the Bones appeared, some approaching the... 69 KB (9,213 words) - 18:43, 29 February 2024 |
calculating rods known as Napier's bones (Scotland, 1617) and Genaille–Lucas rulers (France, late 1800s). Genaille–Lucas rulers Napier's bones Williams, Michael... 10 KB (1,363 words) - 02:09, 22 February 2023 |
Genaille, a French railway engineer, in 1891. The device is a variant of Napier's bones. By representing the carry graphically, the user can read off the results... 4 KB (453 words) - 21:08, 20 September 2023 |
"Table of Pythagoras" on Napier's bones... 20 KB (1,354 words) - 07:53, 21 April 2024 |