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The 3 pages that link to William Oughtred, each with the reason it gives.

• John NapierRelated: Oughtred’s slide rule turned logarithmic calculation into a portable instrument.

• Slide ruleRelated: He combined logarithmic scales into a sliding instrument for calculation.

• Henry BriggsRelated: Oughtred translated logarithmic calculation into a reusable instrument after Briggs’s tables made the method familiar.