location arithmetic

noun

Etymology

Calque of Latin arithmeticae localis, coined by Scottish landowner and mathematician John Napier (1550–1617) in his 1617 treatise Rabdologiæ (written in Latin).

Definitions

  1. A device and technique described in Napier's treatise Rabdologiæ for performing…

    A device and technique described in Napier's treatise Rabdologiæ for performing multiplication, division and extraction of square roots by using counters to represent numbers in binary.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for location arithmetic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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