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"'I give and bequeath to Mildred Dutton," he read aloud, "'daughter of Francis Dutton of the Royal Navy, the sum of what sum shall I fill the blank with, Sir Wycherly?" "Three three yes, three." "Hundreds or thousands, my good sir?" asked Sir Gervaise, a little surprised at the amount of the bequest. "Guineas three thousand guineas five per cents." "That's as plain as logarithms.
'My Lord, I have undertaken this long journey purposely to see your person, and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity you came first to think of this most excellent help unto astronomy, viz. the Logarithms; but, my Lord, being by you found out, I wonder no body else found it out before, when, now known, it is so easy. He was nobly entertained by the Lord Napier, and every summer after that, during the Lord's being alive, this venerable man, Mr.
They brought her a treatise on logarithms by the Rev. C.L. Dodgson. Lewis Carroll and the Rev. C.L. Dodgson were one and the same person, although they were two dissimilar characters. The one was a popular author of nonsense that delighted children by the hundreds of thousands and the other was a scholarly mathematician. C.L. Dodgson came of good Northern-England stock.
My son, I would say, were I blessed with a child you may by deep inquiry and constant intercourse with him learn how a man lives comfortably on nothing a year. But it is best not to be intimate with gentlemen of this profession and to take the calculations at second hand, as you do logarithms, for to work them yourself, depend upon it, will cost you something considerable.
"I've got to get out in the air," Dalzell muttered. "Going to town?" Dave asked. "Yes. Coming along?" "I've got a little more in logarithms to clean up," murmured Darrin, looking wistfully at two pages in one of his text-books on mathematics. "Will it do as well, Danny boy, if I follow in fifteen or twenty minutes?"
Goldsmith, 'the lad knew nothing serviceable when he came, we had an infinity of maggots about algebra and logarithms to drive out of his head; but now he really is nearly as good an accountant as old Johns. 'You would be sorry to part with him, and I cannot help hoping this may be made up. 'You don't bring me any message! I've said I'll listen to nothing.
When he had reached the age of indiscretion was fourteen, and had a frog in his throat, and was conscious of being barefoot he still imagined things and made pictures of them. His father was distressed, and sought by bribes to get him to quit scrawling with pencil and turn his attention to logarithms and other useful things; but with only partial success.
"It is delightful to hear them talk, so different from an English shopkeeper." "Very," assented the learned man. "Their imagery is certainly remarkable. Their scale of prices seems to be founded upon it, as logarithms depend for their existence on the square root of minus one, an impossible quantity." "Dear me! Could you explain that to Marchetto? It might make a difference, you know."
George Washington was indebted for all the education he received to one of the common schools of the province, in which little was taught beyond reading, writing, and accounts. He left it before he had completed his sixteenth year; the last two years of his attendance had been devoted to the study of geometry, trigonometry, and surveying. He had learned to use logarithms.
Even the eighth-grade boys in the Castle Road school, London, share this feeling, doubtless, for in a test in arithmetic that I saw there I noted that in four of the twelve problems set for solution they had permission to use their table of logarithms. They probably got home earlier for supper by their use of this table. I hereby make my humble apologies to Mr.
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