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ON January 1, 1943, there appeared the first number of a new journal, entitled Mathematical Tables and Aids to Computation. It is published by the National Research Council (Washington, U.S.A.), and is to appear quarterly. The subscription is three dollars a year. The editor is Prof. R. C. Archibald, chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on Mathematical Table* and Aids to Computation, to whose retiremem ; from the chair of mathematics at Brown University reference was made in NATURE of August 21, p. 211. Some of the articles are bibliographical, such as one in the second number (April 1943) dealing with the various trigonometric tables with radian arguments. A valuable feature is a section on the description and location of unpublished tables. This, it is hoped, will not only help research workers, but also prevent useless duplication of costly effort. There is a section for queries and replies to them. The longest article in the first number is a list of eighty-eight recent tables, with reviews of the last fourteen and references to other journals where reviews of the first seventy-four can be found.
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Mathematical Tables and Aids to Computation. Nature 152, 352–353 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152352e0
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