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Who invented the system of logarithm in 1614 AD​

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Answer:

Joost Bürgi

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He invented it but John Napier worked on it earlier than Bürgi.

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Answer:

JOHN NAPIER

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The method of logarithms was publicly propounded by John Napier in 1614, in a book entitled Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Wonderful Rule of Logarithms). The book contained fifty-seven pages of explanatory matter and ninety pages of tables related to natural logarithms.

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