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The Logarithmic Abacus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

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“One of the fruits of the higher education is the illuminating view that a logarithm is merely a number that is found in a table. We shall have to widen the curriculum.”

(Kasner and Newman)

As H. G. Wells pointed out a long time ago, in the country of the blind the two-eyed man tends to misjudge his neighbours. Relying almost entirely upon his power of vision, he ignores the other senses, and thinks that to be blind is to be mentally defective. In fact, a blind person sometimes has a more balanced mind than the man with keen edges, ten thumbs and ingrowing ears!

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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1951

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