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       Mr. Aecroid's Tables: Calculations and Customs in the Early Modern
       Countryside
        
       Author : pepys
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2024-03-14 22:09 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | SiempreViernes wrote:
       | > In the 1610s and 1620s, a new computational technology took
       | hold in England: printed mathematical tables for compound
       | interest and discounting ("present value") problems. [...]
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       | > Mathematical tables like Acroyd's emerged out of long-running
       | conflicts between church landlords and tenants over how to
       | determine just and reasonable fines on church lands. Discounting
       | tables were thus not tools of instrumental rationality evincing a
       | new capitalist mentality, but tools of social accommodation and
       | products of the era's "economy of obligation."
        
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