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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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, those logarithms (devised by John Speidell, 1619) of which the base is 2.7182818; -- so called from Napier, the inventor of logarithms. {Logistic} [or] {Proportionallogarithms.}, See under {Logistic}. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Logistic \Lo*gis"tic\, Logistical \Lo*gis"tic*al\, a. [Gr. [?] skilled in calculating, [?] to calculate, fr. lo`gos word, number, reckoning: cf. F. logistique.] 1. Logical. [Obs.] --Berkeley. 2. (Math.) Sexagesimal, or made on the scale of 60; as, logistic, or sexagesimal, arithmetic. {Logistic}, [or] {Proportional}, {logarithms}, certain logarithmic numbers used to shorten the calculation of the fourth term of a proportion of which one of the terms is a given constant quantity, commonly one hour, while the other terms are expressed in minutes and seconds; -- not now used. | |
