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   by sksksndodj 3y ago

   The article doesn't just present the Python code. There is a figure on the previous page which spells out very cleary how the indices are derived. I'm going to stick to my guns and say that this blog post obfuscates matters.
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   by sksksndodj 3y ago

   To be fair, figures like Boole and Hamilton are very much celebrated within Irish academia. And it's not a new thing. I attended a conference on the legacy of Boole in 1995: https://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/ims/bu
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   by sksksndodj 3y ago

   Ludgate's logarithms allow multiplication by addition of indices, but they are not derived from a base, and the indices are all whole numbers. It is an essentially empirical system, unlike the comparable Zech/Jacobi logarithms whi
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   by sksksndodj 3y ago

   There's a much simpler way to derive Ludgate's logarithms. See this article: https://treasures.scss.tcd.ie/miscellany/TCD-SCSS-X.20121208... The Python code is old-fashioned, but the description of how the in
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   by sksksndodj 3y ago

   Here's a comment from 2016 that quotes technical discussions from 1988. It is clear that the Display Postscript implementers had detailed knowledge of NeWS. "In a few cases they picked the same names and operator spec as us, but i