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Permalink Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 21 May, 2015

One clue as to how Napier constructed his log tables is obscurely contained in paragraph 44 of the Constructio. It is
10^7 X (0.9999999)^5000s equals 10^7 - 5000s + (5/4) s^2.

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