LOGARITHMS, as anyone forced to use them at school will recall, can speed up the process of mathematical calculation dramatically. By representing numbers as logarithms (with the help of a slide-rule, ...

THE author makes his title, “Quick and Easy Methods of Calculating”—at least, that is all that is in large print on the title-page; but the binder calls it, on the outside of the book, “The Slide-Rule ...

Mathematical Background: We expect that the student is comfortable with basic mathematics at the level of a U.S. first-year college STEM student. This includes basic notions such as sets and functions ...