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 Mathematical table 

Before calculators were cheap and plentiful, people would use mathematical tables to drastically speed up mathematical work. These are lists of numbers showing the results of calculation with varying variables. The most common is the table of multiplication, which most people know and love from their early math classes.

x*y123456789101112
1 123456789101112
2 24681012141618202224
3 369121518212427303336
4 4812162024283236404448
5 51015202530354045505560
6 61218243036424854606672
7 71421283542495663707784
8 81624324048566472808896
9 918273645546372819099108
10 102030405060708090100110120
11 112233445566778899110121132
12 1224364860728496108120132144

To find 7*8, you'd look left to seven, then down to eight. The answer is 56.

Tables of trigonometric functions were first known to be made by Hipparchus, and were used up until the 1980s when calculators included this functionality. Tables of logarithms and antilogarithms were used to perform tasks such as exponentiation, and sometimes as a short-cut for multiplication. Other tables are still commonly used, particularily in statistics, such as for normalized Gaussian distribution.

Creating tables is a common code optimization technique, and works as well for computers as humans.

Also see truth tables.

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