anyone here know what log tables are? (1 Viewer)

[BrianB]

I'm 42 and remember using Log Tables back at school in the UK

I'm 29, and we used them in high school up in Scotland.

 

[KyleS]

I remember them and I am 26 but it was as Jay stated the next day they showed us the calculators so we never really used them. Funny but my High school Chemistry/Physics instructor could beat us calculating complex Physics equations with his slide rule and we were using advanced graphing calcs. :frowning:
Then again he is probably the smartest person I have met in my life.
KyleS

 

[Clinton McClure]

I'm 27 and have never heard of them. Maybe my school sucked?

 

[Francois Caron]

I've never seen a proper log book as such, but our math books did have a few basic log tables in the appendix.
I no longer have it. My appendix was removed when I was seventeen.

 

[Wayne Bundrick]

I'm 29, and we used them in high school up in Scotland.

Aren't they called "caber tables" in Scotland?

 

[Glenn L]

I'm 33, I know what log tables are, although I'm a math nut. I've never seen just a book of log tables, though. I've only seen them in the back of math text books, or a chapter of them in a math reference book.
Weird little factoid: know what they used *before* logs came around? Sine and Cosine, using a formula like sin(A)*cos(B) = (1/2)sin(A+B) + (1/2)sin(A-B).
Andrew, you might visit this site with your son.