DocumentCode
750843
Title
Ready reckoners [printed multiplication table book]
Author
Williams, Bruce O B ; Johnson, Roger G.
Author_Institution
Birkbeck Coll., Univ. of London, UK
Volume
27
Issue
4
fYear
2005
Firstpage
64
Lastpage
80
Abstract
Multiplication is vital to the conduct of commerce but is time-consuming and error-prone. Among the many aids developed over two centuries to address these issues, the most widely used was the ready reckoner, a printed book containing tables of precalculated multiplication results that could be useful in business transactions.
Keywords
history; mathematics; history; multiplication; printed table book; ready reckoner; Books; Business; Educational institutions; Libraries; Mathematics; Ready reckoners; computing aids; multiplication aid; pre-electronic computing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1058-6180
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MAHC.2005.64
Filename
1549798
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