Adriaan Vlacq
Dutch mathematician
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development of logarithm tables
- In logarithm: History of logarithms
In 1628 the Dutch publisher Adriaan Vlacq brought out a 10-place table for values from 1 to 100,000, adding the missing 70,000 values. Both Briggs and Vlacq engaged in setting up log trigonometric tables. Such early tables were either to one-hundredth of a degree or to one minute of arc.…
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