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THE following mechanical method of finding logarithms seems to be as simple as any that have been proposed, and has the advantage that it gives the logarithms of all numbers without interpolation, and at the same time affords a proof of the fundamental property of the function.
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POCKLINGTON, H. Mechanical Methods of Calculating Logarithms. Nature 61, 469 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061469b0
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