Barlow's Tables of Squares, Cubes, Square Roots, Cube Roots, Reciprocals, and Logarithms

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Barlow's Tables of Squares, Cubes, Square Roots, Cube Roots, Reciprocals, and Logarithms is a classic 19th-century mathematical reference work providing extensive numerical tables used for calculation before the advent of electronic computers.

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instanceOf mathematical reference work
numerical table collection
audience engineers
mathematicians
scientists
author Peter Barlow NERFINISHED
category logarithmic tables
mathematical tables
computationalMethod table lookup
contains tables of cube roots
tables of cubes
tables of logarithms
tables of reciprocals
tables of square roots
tables of squares
field mathematics
numerical analysis
historicalEra pre-electronic computing
historicalSignificance important reference for pre-computer numerical work
language English
medium printed book
namedAfter Peter Barlow NERFINISHED
publicationCentury 19th century
purpose to facilitate numerical computation
replacedBy digital computers
electronic calculators
timePeriodOfUse 19th century
early 20th century
use engineering computation
manual calculation
scientific computation

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Peter Barlow notableWork Barlow's Tables of Squares, Cubes, Square Roots, Cube Roots, Reciprocals, and Logarithms
Peter Barlow knownFor Barlow's Tables of Squares, Cubes, Square Roots, Cube Roots, Reciprocals, and Logarithms
this entity surface form: Barlow's Tables of mathematical functions
Peter Barlow publication Barlow's Tables of Squares, Cubes, Square Roots, Cube Roots, Reciprocals, and Logarithms
this entity surface form: Barlow's Tables of Squares, Cubes, Square Roots, Cube Roots, Reciprocals, and Logarithms (1814)