skip to main content
article
Free Access

Napier's chessboard calculator

Published:01 December 1998Publication History

Abstract

No abstract available.

References

  1. Napier, John. 1617. Rabdologia, private printing, Edinburgh, reprinted as Vol. 15, Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1990.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  2. I originally "discovered" the chessboard calculator in a column by Martin Gardner in Scientific American somewhere around 1970, but I have not been able to locate that article again. If a reader can find it I would appreciate knowing the full reference.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar

Index Terms

  1. Napier's chessboard calculator

                Recommendations

                Comments

                Login options

                Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

                Sign in

                Full Access

                • Published in

                  cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
                  ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 30, Issue 4
                  Dec. 1998
                  125 pages
                  ISSN:0097-8418
                  DOI:10.1145/306286
                  Issue’s Table of Contents

                  Copyright © 1998 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s)

                  Publisher

                  Association for Computing Machinery

                  New York, NY, United States

                  Publication History

                  • Published: 1 December 1998

                  Check for updates

                  Qualifiers

                  • article

                PDF Format

                View or Download as a PDF file.

                PDF

                eReader

                View online with eReader.

                eReader
                About Cookies On This Site

                We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website.

                Learn more

                Got it!