On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Vadim and Oxana Marmer wrote:
> besides, who needs those tables? we have computers now, don't we?
> I was told that there were tables for logarithms once. I have not seen
> one in my life. Is not it the same kind of stuff?
If you _want_ to see one, you have no farther to go than to Sterling
Library and look up what there is under "mathematical tables". (Unless,
in the years since I worked there as an undergraduate, they've thrown
them all out, which I would hope to be unlikely.)
-- DFB.
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