Re: Are logarithms still useful?

From: Herman Rubin (hrubin_at_odds.stat.purdue.edu)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: 8 Sep 2004 11:35:12 -0500

In article <e4a0829b.0409071753.32791887@posting.google.com>,
ZZBunker <zzbunker@netscape.net> wrote:
>Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:<MPG.1ba6fec23c37eae198c95e@news.odyssey.net>...
>> "ZZBunker" <zzbunker@netscape.net> wrote in sci.math:

                        ..................

> 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.

Considering that we have examples of division, with
remainder, farther back than 4000 BCE, this can
hardly be the case. The Greeks had tables of
trigonometric functions and used them; this could
not be the case without extensive division. 

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