napier`s bones; napier`s rods

napier`s bones; napier`s rods is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division.

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