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Nomography may be considered as a graphical computation. By using straight edge (or ruler) and pen, one can solve how | Nomography may be considered as a graphical computation. By using straight edge (or ruler) and pen, one can solve how | ||
| − | parameters relate to each other. Nomography was invented in the end of 19th century and it was workhorse in engineering | + | parameters relate to each other. |
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| + | Nomography was invented in the end of 19th century and it was workhorse in engineering | ||
up to 1960s. After that computers were more and more used for computations and nomography turned out to be forgotten | up to 1960s. After that computers were more and more used for computations and nomography turned out to be forgotten | ||
state of art. Today we use spread-sheet calculators with computers and compute with them how different parameters relate to | state of art. Today we use spread-sheet calculators with computers and compute with them how different parameters relate to | ||
Revision as of 19:29, 2 October 2008
Nomography
Nomography may be considered as a graphical computation. By using straight edge (or ruler) and pen, one can solve how parameters relate to each other.
Nomography was invented in the end of 19th century and it was workhorse in engineering up to 1960s. After that computers were more and more used for computations and nomography turned out to be forgotten state of art. Today we use spread-sheet calculators with computers and compute with them how different parameters relate to each other. However, by using this approach, we have difficult to understand relations intuitively. It is also today very difficult to present graphically how more than three variables relate to each other. So we have almost lost a way to present laws (nomos) graphically (graphy).
Below are two examples of the use of nomography in order show how nomographs may be used in practice.
Example 1
Example 2
Further information
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