Advantages and disadvantages of Napier's bone
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Advantages of Napier bone
Using the multiplication tables embedded in the rods, multiplication can be reduced to addition operations and division to subtractions. More advanced use of the rods can even extract square roots. ... Napier's bones are three-dimensional, square in cross section, with four different rods engraved on each one.
Advantages of Napier's bone:
It is a calculating device.
It was to be operated manually.
It simplified and increase the speed of doing multiplication.
Reduced the risk of error in large multiplication.
It was smaller than the previous inventions.
Disadvantages of Napier's bone:
It became tedious when the multiplication has to be done with big numbers.
It was a much elaborate setup.
It was made up of 200 rods placed in a special box.