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Re: Tables of Trig Functions and Logs of Trig Functions
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2007 May 03, 00:19 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2007 May 03, 00:19 -0700
Gary LaPook wrote: Table 33 in Bowditch, 1938 edition has logs of trig functions to one second of arc. The rest of the book is interesing too, gl dw wrote: >10th of minute tables seem to be uncommon. More common are 10sec >tables. To get what you want, you might need 1sec tables and use >6,12,etc. For example, on line through google books: > >Logarithms of Sines and Tangents for Every Second By Robert Shortrede, >John Caulfield Hannyngton, 1873. > >A source of answers to such questions is: A Guide to Mathematical >Tables, A.V. Lebedev and R.M. Fedorova, 1960. > > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
