tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20795953.post8694915000989962746..comments2023-08-11T12:32:08.470+01:00Comments on Commonplaces: Doing the numbersKevin Musgrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14472110857057175327noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20795953.post-66802924330443634842008-08-12T22:08:00.000+01:002008-08-12T22:08:00.000+01:00Back in the 70's, Andrew Marshall and David Renwic...Back in the 70's, Andrew Marshall and David Renwick wrote a spin-off book of the smash-hit wireless programme 'The Burkiss Way.' In the back was about ten pages of "Uselessarithms," set out just like log tables but when you looked up the number it arrived at the number you were looking up in the first place.<BR/><BR/>Just like our introduction to natural logs.Kevin Musgrovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14472110857057175327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20795953.post-55271135608910555032008-08-12T19:23:00.000+01:002008-08-12T19:23:00.000+01:00I miss my log tablesI miss my log tablesAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11239242366828368668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20795953.post-65108199460820084262008-08-08T21:59:00.000+01:002008-08-08T21:59:00.000+01:00Good heavens... and so we did. I'd entirely forgot...Good heavens... and so we did. I'd entirely forgotten that trick.Kevin Musgrovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14472110857057175327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20795953.post-28104578663467486982008-08-08T16:35:00.000+01:002008-08-08T16:35:00.000+01:00And 10 chains in one furlong, eight furlongs makin...And 10 chains in one furlong, eight furlongs making a mile.....<BR/><BR/>And did you have 'a chain' stretched out across the playground, and try to imagine 80 of the things, end to end....... ?<BR/><BR/>Ah, yes..... Calculators don't do that....ChickPeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08887692191178230666noreply@blogger.com