Tables and interpolation
( go to the article → https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/10/02/tables-and-interpolation/ )
The previous post about hand calculations involved finding the logarithm of a large integer using only tables. We wanted to know the log base 10 of 8675310 and all we had was a table of logarithms of integers up to 1350. We used log10 867 = 2.9380190975 log10 868 = 2.9385197252 and linear interpolation to […]
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Oct. 2, 2021, 8:45 p.m.
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