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location arithmetic

location arithmetic noun: a device and technique described in Napier's treatise Rabdologiæ for performing multiplication, division and extraction of square roots by using counters to represent numbers in binary.

Noun

location arithmetic (uncountable)

  1. A device and technique described in Napier's treatise Rabdologiæ for performing multiplication, division and extraction of square roots by using counters to represent numbers in binary.

Origin of location arithmetic

Calque of Latin arithmeticae localis, coined by Scottish landowner and mathematician John Napier (1550–1617) in his 1617 treatise Rabdologiæ (written in Latin).

Questions about location arithmetic

What does location arithmetic mean?
Location arithmetic means a device and technique described in Napier's treatise Rabdologiæ for performing multiplication, division and extraction of square roots by using counters to represent numbers in binary.
What part of speech is location arithmetic?
Location arithmetic is a noun.

Words near location arithmetic in the dictionary

  1. locating
  2. locating engineer
  3. locating engineers
  4. locatio et conductio
  5. location
  6. location arithmetic
  7. location map
  8. location maps
  9. location, location, location
  10. location-agnostic
  11. locational

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