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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Mr. Jones's computation of the hyperbolic logarithm of 10 improved: being a transformation of the series which he used in that computation to others which converge by the powers of 8o. To which is added a postscript, containing an improvement of Mr. Emerson's computation of the same logarithm'

Read 18 February 1796

Reference number
L&P/10/139
Earliest possible date
24 June 1795
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Hellins

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John Hellins, Paper, 'Hyperbolic logarithm of 10' by John Hellins, 24 June 1795, L&P/10/139, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_139/paper-hyperbolic-logarithm-of-10-by-john-hellins, accessed on 14 June 2026

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