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malshe 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Lost Art of Logarithms

We used logarithms routinely for large multiplications, divisions, etc. in 11th and 12th grade. No calculators were allowed. This was in India.

ninalanyon 4 months ago [–]

Same here when I was at school in the late 1960s and early 1970s. No one had a calculator.

So we were taught logarithms as a tool first.

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