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Multiplication table from 1 to 10 drawn to scale with the upper-right half labeled with prime factorisations. In mathematics, a multiplication table (sometimes, less formally, a times table) is a mathematical table used to define a multiplication operation for an algebraic system.
Mathematical tables are lists of numbers showing the results of a calculation with varying arguments.Trigonometric tables were used in ancient Greece and India for applications to astronomy and celestial navigation, and continued to be widely used until electronic calculators became cheap and plentiful in the 1970s, in order to simplify and drastically speed up computation.
In 493 AD, Victorius of Aquitaine wrote a 98-column multiplication table which gave (in Roman numerals) the product of every number from 2 to 50 times and the rows were "a list of numbers starting with one thousand, descending by hundreds to one hundred, then descending by tens to ten, then by ones to one, and then the fractions down to 1/144 ...
The game of astronomical tables, from Libro de los juegos. The Libro de los juegos (Spanish: "Book of games"), or Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas ("Book of chess, dice and tables", in Old Spanish), was a Spanish treatise of chess which synthesized the information from other Arabic works on this same topic, dice and tables (backgammon forebears) games, [1] commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile ...
This is a list of countries ordered by annual per capita consumption of beer.Information not provided for some countries is not given in the available sources. Note: The row number column is fixed.
This table, which is a modernised version of von Bichowsky's table of 1918, [110] has 24 columns and 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 groups. Group 8 forms a connecting link or transitional zone between groups 7 and 1. Unclassified periodic tables defy easy classification: 1891 — Wendt's generation-tree of the elements [111] 1893 — Nechaev's truncated cones [112]
Las Tablas is a town and corregimiento in the Changuinola District of Bocas del Toro Province of Panama. It has a land area of 97.3 square kilometres (37.6 sq mi) and had a population of 9,286 as of 2010, giving it a population density of 95.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (247/sq mi). [ 1 ]