Napier was working on logarithm appendix, where the natural logarithms of various numbers appeared on a table where e was initially discovered. In 1624, Briggs almost discovered e and gave the numerical approximation to the base 10 logarithm of e but did not mention e in his work. In 1661, Huygens got the relationship between rectangular hyperbola and the logarithm. ... However, he did not make any connection between his work and logarithms and he did not directly call e e. ...

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Purpose: The purpose of this experiment was to learn and use the techniques of titration which would then determine the amount of acid in an unknown. Introduction: One of the most common reactions in chemistry is the reaction of an acid with a base. This reaction is called neutralization. In ...

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Charles Babbage was born in London on December 26, 1791. His father, Benjamin Babbage was a banker. When Charles was a child, he had a major interest in algebra, and was overall truly interested and gifted in mathematics. Cabbage attended Trinity College in Cambridge in 1811. He found himself to be...

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California Earthquakes In 1989, a major earthquake devastated business and residential sections of San Francisco and the surrounding area, destroying a section of the Bay Bridge and an elevated freeway and killing over 75 people. California is earthquake country! The people of the major cities in...

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ARE THEY TAKING OVER DO THEY EVER SMILE? OR, GET ANGRY "Expert systems, case-based reasoning, neural networks, and genetic logarithms represent an applied branch of the computer science field of artificial intelligence (AI)". According to Henry Lucas (2000 p. 595) As our world simultaneously ...

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