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noun • Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617) | ||||
| 33% | 5 | Forename of either a master of the mint who discovered gravity, a vegetarian teetotaller who invented a system of shorthand or an actor who invented a sewing machine | ||
noun • (Old Testament) the second patriarch; son of Abraham and Sarah who was offered by Abraham as a sacrifice to God; father of Jacob and Esau | ||||
| 30% | 9 | Small parts of logarithms | ||
noun • the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the mantissa is .808 | ||||
John Who Invented Logarithms
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