Question

discuss the advantages and disadvantages of napiers bones

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

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.

Answer 2

Advantages of Napier bones:

• Easily operated by anyone.

• It makes the calculation easy for multiplication and division.

• This can be used for calculating square roots.

Disadvantages of Napier bones:

• Sometimes the work becomes tedious while calculating multiplication for large numbers.
• Its structure is not very user-friendly.

Napier's bone is a calculating device that is used to calculate multiplication, division easily. It was invented by John Napier in 1617 in Scotland. This invention made the toughest calculation of multiplication and division for large numbers look smaller.