About Location arithmetic

Location arithmetic is the additive (non-positional) binary numeral systems, which John Napier explored as a computation technique in his treatise Rabdology (1617), both symbolically and on a chessboard-like grid.

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Location arithmetic

One of three devices to aid arithmetic calculation described by John Napier in a treatise

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