Ready reckoners

Williams, B.O.B. and Johnson, Roger (2005) Ready reckoners. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 27 (4), pp. 64-80. ISSN 1058-6180.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2005.64

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.

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Item Type:	Article
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Depositing User:	Sarah Hall
Date Deposited:	20 Apr 2021 19:14
Last Modified:	09 Aug 2023 12:50
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/43947

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