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The Daring Invention of Logarithm Tables: How Jost Bürgi, John Napier, and Henry Briggs simplified arithmetic and started the computing revolution AUTH-11128879 sections on kids and technologyIn the early 17th century, both Jost B rgi and John Napier dared to invent a logarithm table whose construction required tens of thousands of computing steps. These tables reduced computing effort for multiplication and division by an order of magnitude. Indeed, their invention launched a computing revolution that continues to this day. The book tells the story of B rgi's and Napier's work, and how Henry Briggs built on Napier's idea, creating a table