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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