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As a minor point I forgot to mention yesterday, Napier's logarithm was a different function from modern logarithm but satisfies many log laws in a wary. Addit
by AstralStorm 9y ago
As a minor point I forgot to mention yesterday, Napier's logarithm was a different function from modern logarithm but satisfies many log laws in a wary.
Additionally the first accurate multiplication algorithm faster than long multiplication has only been devised in XX century - Karatsuba's.
Abacus is just a mechanical tool that represents long addition and multiplication.