Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Trivia on History of Roget's Thesaurus | Trivia Library

Trivia on History of Roget's Thesaurus | Trivia Library: "He wrote treatises on electricity, galvanism, and electromagnetism; he tried to make a calculating machine; he devised a successful slide rule for performing mathematical operations of involution (raising a number to any power) and evolution (extracting any root of a number);"

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