HAVING been asked to give a short course of lectures to working men, which involved an account of logarithms and the slide-rule, I felt that, although not important, there would be some advantage in ...

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THE publication of Mr. Dufton's method will, I think, serve a useful purpose. It is a common exercise in schools to plot on squared paper, numbers and their logarithms to the base 2 (see Blame's ...