• Lagrange, Joseph Louis, 263

  • Laplace, Pierre, 373

  • Latitude, 254

  • Law: of cosines, 290; of sines, 283

  • Least-squares, 643, 644

  • Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 159

  • Lemniscate, 614

  • Less than, 4, 471

  • Like terms, 30

  • Limaçon, 613

  • Limit, 523

  • Line, 55

  • Linear equation, 141; graph of, 142

  • Linear extrapolation, 109

  • Linear, interpolation, 108

  • Linear programming, 470, 492

  • Linear regression, 145, 576, 642

  • Linear simultaneous systems, 147, 159, 164, 457, 463

  • Lissajous figures, 317

  • Literal number, 4

  • Locus, 579

  • Logarithmic equations, 391

  • Logarithmic function, 376

  • Logarithmic paper, 395

  • Logarithm, 376, 385; to base 10, 385; to bases other than 10, 388; computations by, 386; natural, 388; properties of, 380

  • Longitude, 254

  • Lower control limit, 639

  • Lowest common denominator ...

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