Editing Mathematical table (section)

{{Short description|List of values of a mathematical function}}
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'''Mathematical tables''' are lists of numbers showing the results of a calculation with varying arguments. [[Trigonometric tables]] were used in ancient Greece and India for applications to [[astronomy]] and [[celestial navigation]], and continued to be widely used until [[electronic calculator]]s became cheap and plentiful in the 1970s, in order to simplify and drastically speed up [[computation]]. Tables of [[logarithm]]s and [[trigonometric function]]s were common in math and science textbooks, and specialized tables were published for numerous applications.