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Napier

Noun1.Napier - Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617)
Synonyms: John Napier
Napier - Atkinson & Morrison, St Andrews U; design began ca. 1985, first implementation Napier88, 1988. Based on orthogonal persistence, permits definition and manipulation of namespaces.

["The Napier88 Reference Manual", R. Morrison et al, CS Depts St Andrews U and U Glasgow, Persistent Programming Research Report PPRR-77-89, 1989].
John Napier, mathematician

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