Barlow’s Tables

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Also known as: “New Mathematical Tables”

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Barlow's Tables, officially titled New Mathematical Tables, is a compilation of factors and functions for numbers from 1 to 10,000. Created by mathematician and optician Peter Barlow, this work was first published in 1814. It gained significant recognition for its accuracy and utility, leading to continuous reprints. Barlow was also known for inventing achromatic telescope lenses and for his work on correcting ship compass deviations.1

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Peter Barlow
…published numerous mathematical works, including New Mathematical Tables (1814). Later known as Barlow’s Tables, this compilation of factors and functions of all numbers from 1 to 10,000 was considered so accurate and so useful that it has been regularly reprinted ever since.
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…published numerous mathematical works, including New Mathematical Tables (1814). Later known as Barlow’s Tables, this compilation of factors and functions of all numbers from 1 to 10,000 was considered so accurate and so useful that it has been regularly reprinted ever since.
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