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Title

Genaille's Rods
Author

H. Thimbleby
Journal / Anthology

The Mathematica Journal
Year: 1993
Volume: 3
Issue: 2
Page range: 60-62
Description

Henri Genaille's Rods are a nineteenth-century device for doing multiplication, similar to, but easier to use than, the more familiar Napier's Bones. Genaille's Rods are visually attractive and useful in teaching. This article shows how to use Mathematica to draw the required diagrams, which can then be cut out with scissors and pasted to wooden rods to make an accurate set of rods.
Subject

*Mathematics > Recreational Mathematics
URL

http://www.mathematica-journal.com/issue/v3i2/