English Explanatory Dictionary

location arithmetic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

location arithmetic

Etymology

Calque of Latin arithmeticae localis, coined by Scottish landowner and mathematician John Napier (1550–1617) in his 1617 treatise Rabdologiæ (written in Latin).

Related words

Napier's bones promptuary rabdology
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