Napier
Port, North Island
Napier is a city on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, known for its Art Deco architecture rebuilt after a devastating 1929 earthquake.
It also appears as a surname—most notably John Napier, the Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms in the early 17th century.
Napier's bones were his calculating device using numbered rods.
Exponent-finding operations
- mathematicianProfessional in abstract quantities
- calculationMathematical problem-solving process
- ScottishOf that northern kingdom
- 16th centuryThe 1500s
decimal point · computation · Edinburgh · polymath · theologian · inventor · arithmetic · scientific instruments
Superscript showing power
- baseSupporting bottom structure
- antilogarithmExponential of a logarithm
- mantissaLogarithm's fractional component
- characteristicDistinguishing quality or trait
slide rule · logarithmic scale · natural logarithm · common logarithm · scientific notation · decibel · pH scale · Richter scale
Pacific island nation
- port cityUrban area with harbor
- wine regionGrape-producing geographic zone
- earthquakeSeismic ground movement
- rebuiltConstructed anew
logarithms
Exponent-finding operations
- mathematicianProfessional in abstract quantities
- calculationMathematical problem-solving process
- ScottishOf that northern kingdom
16th century · decimal point · computation · Edinburgh · polymath · theologian · inventor · arithmetic · scientific instruments
exponent
Superscript showing power
- baseSupporting bottom structure
- antilogarithmExponential of a logarithm
- mantissaLogarithm's fractional component
characteristic · slide rule · logarithmic scale · natural logarithm · common logarithm · scientific notation · decibel · pH scale · Richter scale · power
New Zealand
Pacific island nation
- port cityUrban area with harbor
- wine regionGrape-producing geographic zone
- earthquakeSeismic ground movement
rebuilt · Edinburgh · South Africa · British Empire · colonial
clan
Related group sharing ancestry
genealogy · family · lineage · kinship · descent · bloodline · forebears · relatives · house · armorial
- New ZealandAuckland, Wellington, Air New Zealand, Kiwis, Christchurch
- MathematiciansEuclid, Gauss, Euler, Archimedes, Pythagoras
- military historybattles, soldiers, campaigns, officers, battlefields
- Admiralsadmiral, Nelson, Nimitz, Halsey, Dewey
- British Raj FiguresLord Mountbatten, Cornwallis, Wellesley, Ripon, Irwin
- Early MathematiciansEuler, Fermat, Pascal, Leibniz, Newton
NapierAuckland
New Zealand's main city
Wellington · Christchurch · Dunedin · capital city · Queenstown