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John Napier invented logarithms to simplify calculations
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Before calculators existed, doing massive multiplications was a miserable, error-prone chore. Napier spent over twenty years constructing agonizingly tedious logarithmic tables so that subsequent generations could turn miserable multiplication problems into slightly less miserable addition problems, proving laziness is the ultimate driver of innovation.
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