An early history of difficult multiplication and division.

From: Australian Senior Mathematics Journal | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Oliver, Jack | Copyright information

Introduction

Multiplication and division have in general been much more difficult to perform than addition and subtraction. Perhaps, if we could find some device for reducing multiplication and division to addition and subtraction, computational loads could be lightened. One such device is that of logarithms of course. This note outlines another such device with a brief outline of its history; that being the use of trigonometric tables to effect multiplication and divisi...

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