location arithmetic

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n.
  1. 1.

    A device and technique described in Napier's treatise Rabdologiæ for performing multiplication, division and extraction of square roots by using counters to represent numbers in binary.

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Calque of Latin arithmeticae localis, coined by Scottish landowner and mathematician John Napier (1550–1617) in his 1617 treatise Rabdologiæ (written in Latin).

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