Logarithmic Tables of Numbers and Trigonometrical Functions

by Georg von Vega (Creator), Karl Bremiker (Creator), W.L.F. Fischer (Creator)

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686 pages, Hardcover

First published February 5, 2010

Reviews

[Matt]

Sloppy work! On page 73 the first grave error. Couldn’t they use a reliable calculator in 1794? What if this value had been used in constructing a hospital building and it collapses because of this “rounding flaw”? It’s like the Pentium-Bug of the 18th century.
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