closed, winter break. no chance to see it this year.

On 25 Dec 2001, Donald Burrill wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Vadim and Oxana Marmer wrote:
>
> > besides, who needs those tables? we have computers now, don't we?
> > I was told that there were tables for logarithms once. I have not seen
> > one in my life. Is not it the same kind of stuff?
>
> If you _want_ to see one, you have no farther to go than to Sterling
> Library and look up what there is under "mathematical tables".  (Unless,
> in the years since I worked there as an undergraduate, they've thrown
> them all out, which I would hope to be unlikely.)
>
>               -- DFB.
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