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The history of mathematical tables : from Sumer to spreadsheets
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The history of mathematical tables : from Sumer to spreadsheets

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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 Müller 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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The history of mathematical tables : from Sumer to spreadsheets. ISBN 0198508417. Published by Oxford University Press in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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