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From Henry Briggs to Modern Calculators
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Henry Briggs, the first Gresham Professor of Geometry, developed what we now call common logarithms to make multiplication easier. Nowadays few of us use logarithms because hand-held calculators make everything much easier. But do they? This lecture shows how bad many current calculators are, and how ideas in computing science can circumvent many of their problems.
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This event was on Thu, 29 Nov 2001
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