| Description |
ix, 182 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. A Time for Reckoning -- 2. Primitives. Addition and Subtraction. Multiplication. Division. The Greatest Common Divisor. Error-Checking and Divisibility Tests. Factorization. A Factoring Game -- 3. Roots. Roots of Perfect Powers. Particular Square Root Methods. The Chebyshev Correction. A General Square Root Algorithm. The Reciprocal Square Root. Cube Roots. Higher-Order Roots -- 4. Logarithms and Their Inverses. General Logarithmic Approximations. Neighboring Value Relations. Intermediate Value Relations. An Iterative Relation. Approximate Logarithmic Inverses. An Example Problem -- 5. Trigonometric Functions and Their Inverses. Sine and Cosine Functions. The Tangent Function. The Arcsine and Arccosine Functions. The Arctangent Function. Other Approximations -- 6. Concluding Remarks -- Appendix: Finding Rational Approximations to Precomputed Constants. |
| Subject |
Ready-reckoners.
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| ISBN |
0884150879 |
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9780884150879 |
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