john napier

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   Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617)

   SynonymsNapier

   Broadermathematician

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What does john napier mean?

john napier means "Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617)".

What is another word for john napier?

Close synonyms include Napier. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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john napier is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.