What does "naperian" mean?
Naperian: Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Napier, or Naper. Naperian logarithms. See under Logarithms. NAPIER'S BONES; NAPIER'S RODS Na"pi*er's bones`, Na"pi*er's rods`. A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division.
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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