Napier deliberately set himself to abbreviate multiplications and divisions - operations of so fundamental a character that it might well have been thought that they were in rerum natura incapable of abbreviation; and he succeeded in devising, by the help of arithmetic and geometry alone, the one 1
abbreviate הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד