On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:34:57 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull>
wrote:

>
>My dear boy, do you have *any idea* how awkward it is to draw a 
>logarithmic scale so all the numbers are readable?

Isn't that what computers are for? Anyway Napier managed to do it by
hand. Have a look at a slide rule. 

http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/C.J.Sangwin/Sliderules/mannheim.pdf

http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/C.J.Sangwin/Sliderules/fullrule.pdf


Also see
http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/C.J.Sangwin/Sliderules/nonlogrule.pdf
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Regards
     Stephen

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