Homepage of P. Christopher Staecker: The Numbring Nines

Enneades Arithmeticae, or The Numbring Nines was a short book published by Joseph Moxon in 1684. It describes a tool for multiplying a large number by a single digit. These rods were directly inspired by Napier's Bones, and were intended as an improvement, though really they're not much better.

About the rods

Here's a short video I made about the Numbring Nines rods.

This is part of my series of videos about antique computational devices. Here is the full series playlist

Download & Images

A full set has 100 rods. This PDF is 5 pages, with 20 rods per page.

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