<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>All,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I just received a note via a long chain that ended with Mary Croarken about a new web page by Denis Roegel that presents a very complete analysis of most of the major mathematical table projects prior to the 20th century, including both Vlacq and Prony. While the subject predates the interests of many on this list, it remains an important part of computing history and deserves to be better known. The link is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; "><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.loria.fr/%7Eroegel/locomat.html">http://www.loria.fr/~roegel/locomat.html</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">----------------------------------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">David Alan Grier</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">FIrst Vice President </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">IEEE Computer Society</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "> 2011</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Vice President of Publications, </font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Associate Professor of International Science and Technology Policy</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Center for International Science and Technology Policy</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Elliott School Of International Affairs</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">George Washington University</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="mailto:grier@computer.org">grier@computer.org</a></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">"The Known World"</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">IEEE Computer</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.computer.org/theknownworld">www.computer.org/theknownworld</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>