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|a The history of mathematical tables :
|b from Sumer to spreadsheets /
|c edited by M. Campbell-Kelly ... [et al.].
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|a Oxford :
|b Oxford University Press,
|c 2003.
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|a viii, 361 p. :
|b ill. ;
|c 24 cm.
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|a Includes bibliographical references and index.
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|a Tables and tabular formatting in Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria, 2500 BCE-50 CE -- The making of logarithm tables -- History of actuarial tables -- The computation factory : de Prony's project for making tables in the 1790s -- Difference engines : from Mèuller to Comrie -- The 'unerring certainty of mechanical agency' : machines and table making in the nineteenth century -- Table making in astronomy -- The General Register Office and the tabulation of data, 1837-1939 -- Table making by committee : British table makers, 1871-1965 -- Table making for the relief of labour -- The making of astronomical tables in HM Nautical Almanac Office -- The rise and rise of the spreadsheet.
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|a Mathematics
|x History.
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