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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Donald F. Burrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] 184 Nashua Road, Bedford, NH 03110 603-471-7128 ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================