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jan 1, 1622 - *William Oughtred

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William Oughtred first used two of the logarithmic scales invented by Napier: by sliding one scale by another, he could perform direct multiplication and division. Oughtred is credited as the inventor of the slide rule

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History of Mathematics 2019

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