SOLUTION: I know how logarithms work, but how were they solved before there were calculators?

Question 173873: I know how logarithms work, but how were they solved before there were calculators?
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Answer by nycsub_teacher(90) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can find the answer here:
http://www.humboldt.edu/~mef2/Presentations/HSU%20Colloquia/colloq2_4_99.html
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Obviously, even with calculators, numerical representations of logarithms are approximations. The only consideration is how precise you need to be. The following infinite series converges at .

So, you keep adding terms until you reach the precision you need. People have spent their entire lives creating books filled with numbers based on such calculations.
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