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Napier was also responsible for the birth of the decimal place. He suggested that a number with fractional components be visually divided by the use of a point, or decimal. This greatly aided calculations dealing with partial numbers. This practice became largely accepted in Great Britain.
Aside the invention of logarithms and the decimal point, Napier had also created a certain style of abacus, known as "Napier's Bones", which was used for calculation of products and quotients of numbers... displayed 300 characters
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This practice became largely accepted in Great Britain.
Aside the invention of logarithms and the decimal point, Napier had also created a certain style of abacus, known as "Napier's Bones", which was used for calculation of products and quotients of numbers. This abacus implemented the use of a board with a rim, and several rods... displayed next 300 characters
John Napier was a Scottish Mathematician who was born in Merchiston
Castle in Edinburgh in the year 1550. He briefly attended St. Andrew's
University, but for some unknown reason, left without obtaining a degree,
which didn't seem to have any relevance to him...
Kepler used logarithms in his discovers and Newton theory of gravitation used much of the math developed by Napier. Laplace showed the importance of logarithms when he said the following "by shortening the labours, doubled the life of the astronomer"...
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The twenty-one categories (labeled A to Z, but missing I, O, W, X and Y) are further sub-divided by adding one or two additional letters and a set of numbers...
In some provinces, the PST is calculated on the selling price only. In other provinces, the PST is calculated on the sum of the selling price and the Goods and Services Tax (GST)...
John Napier was born in Merchiston Tower in Scotland, 1550. He was known
as the "Marvelous Merchiston", a title received for his genius and imaginative
vision in a number of fields...
In 1744, Euler proved e to be irrational. In 1873, Charles Hermite proved e transcendental.
It is usually shown in calculus that
and
Euler also gave an expression for e using continued fraction:
F= [2, 1, 2, 1, 1, ...