Wikipedia : Gadget / proposals has a few gadget proposals ( such as the log table and metadata scripts ) that have been there for quite a long time with no objections, some support, but not many people commenting.
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Of course, the concept of logarithms is not hard to derive, even for an elementary mathematician, so it is possible that Muslims used log tables, but this is my best source, and I would try to stick with verifiable sources if you can.
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I went on to learn ( not very well ) log tables ( and on entering industry ), slide rules ( " which, over forty years on, still work without having their batteries replaced even once " ) and then big desk top calculating machines with nixie tube displays.
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In 1703, Magnitsky also produced a Russian edition of Adriaan Vlacq's log tables called " " 01; 8FK; > 30 @ 8D < > 2 8 A8 = CA > 2, B0 = 35 = A > 2 8 A5 : 0 = A > 2 " ( Tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, and secants ).
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:Of course that conversion into powers-of-10 format is a bitch to do-but they published big, thick books ( " log tables " ) containing the logs of numbers from 0 to 1 ( to perhaps 4 to 7 digits of precision ) and other big books that did'antilogarithms'that convert from the log back to the normal number.
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You could take the log 2 10 and suppose that the half-life is 24 / 3.32 = 7.2 hours, but that's a fraught assumption since there could be many sequential steps the molecule goes through that impose various delays so that it doesn't pee out according to a log table . ( I suppose even saying " half-life " already wades into these issues, come to think of it ) In any case it would be OR; stick to what the paper says . : ) talk ) 13 : 34, 17 January 2015 ( UTC)
