His Canon of Logarithms begins: “Seeing there is nothing that is so troublesome to mathematical practice, nor doth more molest and hinder calculators, than the multiplications, divisions, square and cubical extractions of great numbers, which besides the
His Canon of Logarithms begins: “Seeing there is nothing that is so troublesome to mathematical practice, nor doth more molest and hinder calculators, than the multiplications, divisions, square and cubical extractions of great numbers, which besides the
他的「对数规则」一开始是这麽写的：「庞大数字的乘法、除法、平方和立方的数学方法十分麻烦，计算起来又相当繁杂，不仅花费大量时间，而且非常容易发生错误，于是我开始构思有什麽方法可以解决问题。」