Word: logarithm
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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...
...change in conditions since the war," he continued. "The cost of living has increased 98,500,800,000 times. When dealing in terms such as that, business dealings become baffling,--almost impossible. In every shop in Germany business is transacted by means of a printed placard very like a logarithm table. It is a sort of currency multiplication which varies each day as the value of the dollar goes up and the mark goes down...
Mathematical Conference. The Logarithm as a Direct Function. Mr. J. W. Bradshaw. Sever...
Mathematical Conference. The Logarithm as a Direct Function. Mr. J. W. Bradshaw. Sever...