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    Logistic (?), Logistical (?),  a. [Gr.  skilled in calculating,  to calculate, fr. λόγος word, number, reckoning: cf. F. logistique.]
   1. Logical. [Obs.]  Berkeley.
   
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   2. (Math.) Sexagesimal, or made on the scale of 60; as, “logistic, or sexagesimal, arithmetic”.
   
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   3. Of or pertaining to logistics; as, “logistic requirements; logistical problems; a logistical nightmare”.
   
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   Logistic logarithms, or Proportional logarithms, certain logarithmic numbers used to shorten the calculation of the fourth term of a proportion of which one of the terms is a given constant quantity, commonly one hour, while the other terms are expressed in minutes and seconds; -- not now used.
   
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