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Word: logarithm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worker on pi is Dr. Horace Scudder Uhler of Yale. He is not extending the decimal value of pi itself any further, but he labors on the values of derivatives, such as the square of pi, the logarithm of pi, the fraction one over pi. In Washington last week it was disclosed that Dr. Uhler had turned in to the National Academy of Sciences a value for the logarithm of pi carried out to 215 decimal places, and a value for the square of pi carried out to 262 decimal places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pi | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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