location arithmetic
nounEtymology
Calque of Latin arithmeticae localis, coined by Scottish landowner and mathematician John Napier (1550–1617) in his 1617 treatise Rabdologiæ (written in Latin).
- derived from arithmeticae localis
Definitions
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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