Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Napier"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Napier
n : Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced
the use of the decimal point in writing numbers
(1550-1617) [syn: {Napier}, {John Napier}]
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