Dead Reckoning by Ronald W. Doerfler
Calculating Without Instruments
A practical, engaging guide to pre-calculator computation, it resurrects and explains classic pencil-and-paper and mental techniques for multiplication, division, roots, logarithms, and trigonometric values, showing how to achieve accurate results with simple tools. Blending historical context with step-by-step methods and worked examples, it equips readers to compute efficiently, understand why the algorithms work, and appreciate the ingenuity behind centuries of numerical craftsmanship.
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