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Le calcul simplifié : graphical and mechanical methods for simplifying calculation / Maurice d'Ocagne ; translated by J. Howlett and M.R. Williams.
LIBRA QA75 .O1513 1986
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ocagne, Maurice d', 1862-1938.
- Series:
- Charles Babbage Institute reprint series for the history of computing ; 11.
- Charles Babbage Institute reprint series for the history of computing ; 11
- Standardized Title:
- Calcul simplifié par les procédés mécaniques et graphiques. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Calculators.
- Mathematical instruments.
- Graphic methods.
- Physical Description:
- 167 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ; Los Angeles : Tomash Publishers, [1986]
- Summary:
- This first translation of d'Ocagne's Le Calcul Simplifié makes a classic work on the early art of computation available to historians of computer science.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Calcul simplifié par les procédés mécaniques et granphiques. 3. ed.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [159]-160.
- ISBN:
- 0262150328
- OCLC:
- 13062582
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