Although the editor, in his introduction, does not make it quite clear why at this particular point in time the decision was taken to reprint Louis Bolk's neuro-anatomical work on the segmental innervation ofthe human trunk and limbs, there can be no doubt that this monograph of 1910, both from a clinical and historical point of view, is a worthwhile publication. Bolk, the most influential of D...

Jakab was a lawyer in the Budapest office of the Assicurazioni Generali of Trieste, a large international insurance firm. Before joining the company he had had a private law practice. His real interests, however, lay in economics and statistics and he continued to study these on the side, in the hope of obtaining an academic position in economics, so that he could devote full time to research. ...

This paper presents a method to approach the implementation of a highly accurate logarithmic converter that operates with floating point numbers. For consistency purposes, it was necessary to adopt a standard to represent all floating point number. Hence, the IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) was the one selected. This logarithmic converter is based on Mitchell’s alg...