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skipvia commented on the word napier's bones
1614, Scotland. John Napier created a device, called Napier's bones that performed multiplications by doing a series of additions (which was a lot easier to do) and divisions as a series of subtraction as well as square and cube roots. See Calculating Devices.
January 27, 2008