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📖 The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms

🔗 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Construction_of_the_Wonderful_Canon_of_Logarithms

#JohnNapier #History #Maths #Mathematics #Science #HistSci #Ebook #Books #Bookstodon

The number e is a #mathematicalConstant approximately equal to 2.71828 that is the #base of the #naturalLogarithm and #exponentialFunction. It is sometimes called Euler's number, after the Swiss mathematician #LeonhardEuler, though this can invite confusion with #EulerNumbers, or with #EulersConstant, a different constant typically denoted γ {\displaystyle \gamma } . Alternatively, e can be called Napier's constant after #JohnNapier.

Oh, look! Another ✨riveting✨ blog post about a topic as dry as toast: estimating logarithms. Because who wouldn't want to read a 5-minute love letter to John Napier's brainchild from the 1600s? 📚🔥 Spoiler alert: count digits, feel smart. 😂
https://obrhubr.org/logarithm-estimation #estimatinglogarithms #JohnNapier #mathhumor #blogpost #techhistory #drytopics #HackerNews #ngated

After being offline for years, the play transcript of the ClubFloyd folks playing through my interactive fiction / text adventure game Napier’s Cache is back online. I loved seeing how the players tackled my game. This game was inspired by a true story in my family history, involving mathematician John Napier. It was so much fun to write. https://www.allthingsjacq.com/intfic_clubfloyd_20200401.html #interactiveFiction #textAdventure #historicalFiction #IndieGames #ScottishHistory #16thCentury #Mathematics #Occult #JohnNapier

Here are a few #horsetail plants, seen on my walk #today (yesterday, actually).

Plus a wandering "woolly bear" (#TigerMoth) #caterpillar.

Horsetails are 150 million-year-old living fossils that were eaten by - yes! - Jurassic #dinosaurs.

Also, their unique node spacing inspired #JohnNapier in 1614 to invent #logarithms.

Admittedly, some rude US jurisdictions (wtf Oregon...?) classify them as noxious weeds.

But imho this is an amazing plant with a wonderful résumé 💚

#Equisetum #Spring

Here are a few #horsetail plants, seen on my walk #today (yesterday, actually).

Plus a wandering "woolly bear" (#TigerMoth) #caterpillar.

Horsetails are 150 million-year-old living fossils that were eaten by - yes! - Jurassic #dinosaurs.

Also, their unique node spacing inspired #JohnNapier in 1614 to invent #logarithms.

Admittedly, some rude US jurisdictions (wtf Oregon...?) classify them as noxious weeds.

But imho this is an amazing plant with a wonderful résumé 💚

#Equisetum #Spring

Here are a few #horsetail plants, seen on my walk #today (yesterday, actually).

Plus a wandering "woolly bear" (#TigerMoth) #caterpillar.

Horsetails are 150 million-year-old living fossils that were eaten by - yes! - Jurassic #dinosaurs.

Also, their unique node spacing inspired #JohnNapier in 1614 to invent #logarithms.

Admittedly, some rude US jurisdictions (wtf Oregon...?) classify them as noxious weeds.

But imho this is an amazing plant with a wonderful résumé 💚

#Equisetum #Spring

Here are a few #horsetail plants, seen on my walk #today (yesterday, actually).

Plus a wandering "woolly bear" (#TigerMoth) #caterpillar.

Horsetails are 150 million-year-old living fossils that were eaten by - yes! - Jurassic #dinosaurs.

Also, their unique node spacing inspired #JohnNapier in 1614 to invent #logarithms.

Admittedly, some rude US jurisdictions (wtf Oregon...?) classify them as noxious weeds.

But imho this is an amazing plant with a wonderful résumé 💚

#Equisetum #Spring

Here are a few #horsetail plants, seen on my walk #today (yesterday, actually).

Plus a wandering "woolly bear" (#TigerMoth) #caterpillar.

Horsetails are 150 million-year-old living fossils that were eaten by - yes! - Jurassic #dinosaurs.

Also, their unique node spacing inspired #JohnNapier in 1614 to invent #logarithms.

Admittedly, some rude US jurisdictions (wtf Oregon...?) classify them as noxious weeds.

But imho this is an amazing plant with a wonderful résumé 💚

#Equisetum #Spring