These are written down and the final result is calculated by pen and paper. To demonstrate how to use Napier's bones for multiplication, three examples of increasing difficulty are explained below.

Thus, 12 x 34 = 408. An ivory set of Napier’s Bones from around 1650. Image via Marc Kjerland. John Napier had a great deal of calculating to do. The lattice multiplication method was a big ...

“I could be a lot more help if I were present at the excavation site,” he explains, “because the site itself can help me tell right off whether the bones are human, and whether there are certain ...

Here are eight examples of mutualistic relationships. True gobies (Gobiidae) are a family of about 2,000 species of fishes. Most of them are quite small and live on the seafloor. In some cases, gobies ...

Slide rules depend on Napier’s discovery of logarithms ... So the log of 200, for example is about 2.3. If you spent a lot of time calculating, you could create a table of numbers and their ...

For example, instead of competing to attract customers by lowering prices or offering better contracts, they may all use similar contracts or keep prices around the same level. This anti ...

Body size is a complicated variable across primate locomotor studies (Napier, 1968 ... comparisons across groups show odd patterns. For example, there are small and large leaping primates as ...

UF head coach Billy Napier's controversial comments about online critics from rural Central Florida have heightened tensions with UCF. The UCF NIL collective quickly turned his words into a ...

Billy Napier was falsely accused of ripping Florida fans this week. Such nonsense isn’t fair, but it comes with the territory ...

These are the questions Erin Napier aims to address in her new book ... than to have it end up in a landfill because it's outdated. As an example, vintage lamps often have beautiful bases, and we ...

It's the same if Florida football wants to part ways with Billy Napier. But at this point, a parting appears inevitable. The Florida Gators (1-2, 0-1 SEC) dropped to 12-16 under Napier following a ...

Let’s start with the Gators, who are seemingly close to pulling the plug on Napier not even three years into the 7-year, $7.4 million-a-year contract he signed in December 2021. If Napier gets ...