Abstract
THIS book of tables, which we notice has reached its fourth edition, will be found to serve the purpose for many computations which require an accuracy extending only to four or five places of decimals. The tables throughout seem to be well arranged, and the figures neatly printed, thus fulfilling two important requirements from the computer's standpoint. In addition to five-place logarithms there is a table to four-places, together with four-place trigonometric functions, a table of useful constants, and an addition-subtraction table. Among others we may mention a five, place table of natural sines, &c., with a six-place table of their logarithms, prime and composite numbers, squates, cubes, square roots, &c., Bessel's coefficients for interpolation to the fifth differences, binomial coefficients for interpolation, also for fifth differences, and lastly a useful table of the errors of observations, from which we can at a glance determine the ordinates of the probability curve, values of probability integrals, &c. An explanation, preceding the tables themselves, shows how they may be adv intageously used, and the author offers the reward of “a dollar” for the first notice of a mistake “to promote the detection of errors.”
Logarithmic Tables.
By Prof. George William Jones. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1893.)
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Logarithmic Tables. Nature 47, 508 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047508b0
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