Re: Are logarithms still useful?

From: ZZBunker (zzbunker_at_netscape.net)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: 7 Sep 2004 18:53:32 -0700

Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:<MPG.1ba6fec23c37eae198c95e@news.odyssey.net>...
> "ZZBunker" <zzbunker@netscape.net> wrote in sci.math:
> > Logarithms were invented to faciliate Physics
> > calculations, and that's still the only
> > place the only they're used.
>
> Astronomy, not physics; and they're not.
>
> Physics hardly existed in 1614 when Napier did his thing; but
> Laplace said "By shortening the labors, the invention of logarithms
> doubled the life of the astronomer."

  Since Physics existed since like before Zeno existed.
  You quite obviously mean that Newton, the
  Logic-challenged wanker, did not exist
  in 1614. And Napier invented logarithm *tables*.
  *Logarithms* were invented at the same time
  *division* of numbers were invented.

  Which is why it was Fibonacii, not Napier,
  that discovered that logarithms have the something do with
  both Geometry and the sqrt(2) and Napier didn't.

  Which is where both the word "limit" and
  "continued" fraction came from in
  Pythagorus et al sqrt(2) "proof" crap.

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