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A male given name transferred from the surname
Any of several cities and towns, but especially Napier, New Zealand
John Napier, Scottish mathematician etc
A Scottish occupational surname for someone who sold table linen, or was in charge of the linen of a great house
Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617)

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Napier's bones
A set of numbered rods used for multiplication and division (see the Wikipedia article for a fuller explanation)
Napier's rods
Another name for Napier’s bones
napier's bones
a set of graduated rods formerly used to do multiplication and division by a method invented by John Napier
Frederic John Napier Thesiger 1st Viscount Chelmsford
born Aug. 12, 1868, London, Eng. died April 1, 1933, London English colonial administrator. In 1905 he was appointed governor of Queensland, Austl., and in 1909 of New South Wales. He left Australia in 1913 to serve in India as a captain in the Dorsetshire regiment. As viceroy of India in a time of surging Indian nationalism (1916-21), he helped to institute reforms increasing Indian representation in government but provoked opposition by his severe measures against nationalists
Frederic John Napier Thesiger 1st Viscount Chelmsford of Chelmsford
born Aug. 12, 1868, London, Eng. died April 1, 1933, London English colonial administrator. In 1905 he was appointed governor of Queensland, Austl., and in 1909 of New South Wales. He left Australia in 1913 to serve in India as a captain in the Dorsetshire regiment. As viceroy of India in a time of surging Indian nationalism (1916-21), he helped to institute reforms increasing Indian representation in government but provoked opposition by his severe measures against nationalists
John Napier
born 1550, Merchiston Castle, near Edinburgh, Scot. died April 4, 1617, Merchiston Castle Scottish mathematician and champion of Protestantism. He divided his life between attacks on the church of Rome and the pursuit of numerical calculations. On a number of occasions he urged James IV of Scotland to deal firmly with the Catholic threat. From 1594 he worked on developing secret weapons, including a metal chariot with small holes through which shot could be fired. He developed the concept of the logarithm to facilitate calculations involving multiplication, division, roots, and powers. He also introduced the decimal point as a notation for decimal fractions. The set of calculating rods he designed was a precursor to the slide rule
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