Intro To Logarithms After The Meltdown
Abstract
This work is an attempt to 'reconstruct' logarithms in the hypothetical case that mankind has suffered a catastrophe through which all repositories of (mathematical as well as other) knowledge are lost, with the exception of simple arithmetic operations. It turns out that this is possible without re-inventing calculus!
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