Question

factors that led to the invention of devices like Napier Bones

Answer 1

Answer:

John Napier 1550 - 1617

John Napier was a Scottish mathematician and inventor. Napier is famous for creating mathematical logarithms, creating the decimal point, and for inventing Napier's Bones, a calculating instrume

Answer 2

Explanation:

Napier’s bones was done by John Napier which consists of 10 bones and it is used for the calculating products and quotients of numbers. Here the method of finding the solution was based on the Arab mathematics.

Slide rule was invented by Oughtred used two sliding scales by one another to perform direct multiplication and division. This side rule is also used for functions such as not used to perform calculations of addition and subtraction. It is the most common tool used before the invention of electronic calculator.

In 15th century there was not a proper device to perform the calculations of addition, subtraction, division and multiplication and it was very hard to perform problems related to this. Hence this made Napier and Oughtred to create Napier bones, Slide rule in the 16th century.