Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f1C6wmH13898 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:58:48 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1C6wmd28083 . for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:58:48 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C094C1.3F6BC400" Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1C6wlM04501 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:58:47 +0100 (MET) Received: from mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.56]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA25212 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:58:44 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1C6wiM04490 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:58:44 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <5.117E278E@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 7:58:37 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 487577 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:58:40 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA00195 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:58:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA25312 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:58:39 +0100 Received: from abacus.maths.uq.edu.au (abacus.maths.uq.edu.au [130.102.160.6]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1C6wZu11635 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:58:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from littleted.maths.uq.edu.au (littleted.maths.uq.edu.au [130.102.160.23]) by abacus.maths.uq.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA20853 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:58:33 +1000 (EST) Received: (from kgs@localhost) by littleted.maths.uq.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA05906 for LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:58:31 +1000 (EST) Return-Path: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: inputenc text (and/or math) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:58:31 +0100 Message-ID: <200102120658.QAA05906@littleted.maths.uq.edu.au> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Ken Smith" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3836 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C094C1.3F6BC400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Chris Rowley wrote on Fri, 9 Feb 2001 20:14:37 +0000 > Boris Veytsman wrote -- > > > > > Yes. I remember an old book of log tables, that used exclusively old > > style digits. It was difficult to use, at least for me. > > Oh yes I recall them fondly: they were so much easier to read than > modern tables with uniform rows of lining digits. > > But heh! Who on this list is wrinkly enough to even know what a log > table is:-)? Well, I'm not very wrinkly, but I still have easily accessible on my bookshelves a set of seven figure log tables. And I have packed away somewhere two volumes of fifteen (or should that be 15?) figure log tables. Speaking of log tables, some years ago a book was published which contained natural logs of prime numbers to (if my memory is correct) over a hundred decimal places. At the time I saw a review of this which consisted of just one word: "Why?" Does anyone remember where this review appeared? > chris Ken Smith ------_=_NextPart_001_01C094C1.3F6BC400 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: inputenc text (and/or math)

Chris Rowley <C.A.Rowley@OPEN.AC.UK> wrote = on
Fri, 9 Feb 2001 20:14:37 +0000

> Boris Veytsman wrote --
>
> >
> > Yes. I remember an old book of log tables, = that used exclusively old
> > style digits. It was difficult to use, at = least for me.
>
> Oh yes I recall them fondly: they were so much = easier to read than
> modern tables with uniform rows of lining = digits.
>
> But heh!  Who on this list is wrinkly = enough to even know what a log
> table is:-)?

Well, I'm not very wrinkly, but I still have easily = accessible on my
bookshelves a set of seven figure log tables.

And I have packed away somewhere two volumes of = fifteen (or should
that be 15?) figure log tables.

Speaking of log tables, some years ago a book was = published which
contained natural logs of prime numbers to (if my = memory is correct)
over a hundred decimal places.
At the time I saw a review of this which consisted of = just one word:
"Why?"
Does anyone remember where this review = appeared?

> chris

Ken Smith

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