The article explores how Nathaniel Bowditch might have taught navigation to sailors who could only add and subtract by using lookup tables of logarithms and trigonometric functions. While theoretically possible, the scheme would require extensive tables and careful algorithm design to minimize the mathematical sophistication needed.
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