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Logarithms provide a rapid method for finding the product of two numbers without undertaking the lengthy procedure of long multiplication.

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© 1967 D. M. Neal and D. J. New

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Neal, D.M., New, D.J. (1967). Logarithms. In: Working With Arithmetic. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00043-2_13

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