LOGISTICS, or LOGISTICAL ARITHMETIC, a name sometimes employed for the arithmetic of sexagesimal fractions, used in astronomical computations.
The same term has been used for the rules of computations in algebra, and in other species of arithmetic: witness the logistics of Vieta and other writers.
Shakeely, in his Tabula Britannica, has a table of logarithms adapted to sexagesimal fractions, and which he calls Logistical Logarithms; and the expeditious arithmetic, obtained by means of them, he calls Logistical Arithmetic.