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Briggs 1624 — Arithmetica logarithmica
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H. Briggs (1624). Arithmetica logarithmica. London, 1624. Canonical: https://archive.org/details/arithmeticalogar00brig. Cited by its record. License as found: public domain (the author died more than a century ago, or the work was published before 1930). What it gave the chain: base-ten logarithms, thirty thousand of them to fourteen places - the digits of a number as its logarithm.
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- builds on → Napier 1614 — Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio — base-ten logarithms, thirty thousand of them to fourteen places - the digits of a number a
- enables → Euler 1748 — Introductio in analysin infinitorum (E101-E102) — e, and the exponential and the logarithm as inverse functions: the table-logarithm of Napi
- enables → Cobham 1965 — The intrinsic computational difficulty of functions — feasible = polynomial in the LENGTH of the input, and the length of a number is its logari
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