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(1) PART 5 (the fourth to be published) contains the logarithms of the integers from 50,000 to 60,000. The frontispiece is a photographic reproduction of the title page of Briggs' “Arithmetica Logarithmica”(1624).
(1) Logarithmetica Britannica: being a Standard Table of Logarithms to Twenty Decimal Places.
By Dr. Alexander John Thompson. Part 5: Numbers 50,000 to 60,000. (Tracts for Computers, No. 17.) Issued by the Biometric Laboratory, University of London, to commemorate the Tercentenary of Henry Briggs' publication of the Arithmetica Logarithmica, 1624. Pp. iv + 100. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1931.) 15s. net.
(2) Primes and Factors.
Computed by Emma Gifford. Pp. vi + 94. (Manchester: Printed by Abel Heywood and Son, Ltd., 1931.)
(3) The Nomogram: the Theory and Practical Construction of Computation Charts.
By H. J. Allcock J. Reginald Jones. (The Specialists' Series.) Pp. viii + 209. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1932.) 10s. 6d. net.
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T., L. (1) Logarithmetica Britannica: being a Standard Table of Logarithms to Twenty Decimal Places (2) Primes and Factors (3) The Nomogram: the Theory and Practical Construction of Computation Charts. Nature 131, 785 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131785a0
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