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... rules for finding the moveable festivals of the Church ; but it is probable that in practice it generally meant the art of astrology . By the middle of the thirteenth century anyone who was really interested in mathematics had a vastly ...
... rules for finding the moveable festivals of the Church ; but it is probable that in practice it generally meant the art of astrology . By the middle of the thirteenth century anyone who was really interested in mathematics had a vastly ...
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... rules of addition , subtraction , multiplication , and division , " de al- gorismo . " The more important calendars and other treatises also inserted a statement of the rules of proportion , illustrated by various practical questions ...
... rules of addition , subtraction , multiplication , and division , " de al- gorismo . " The more important calendars and other treatises also inserted a statement of the rules of proportion , illustrated by various practical questions ...
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... rule of false assumption . This consists in assuming any number for the unknown quantity , and if on trial it does not satisfy the given conditions , correcting it by simple proportion as in rule of three . It is only applicable to a ...
... rule of false assumption . This consists in assuming any number for the unknown quantity , and if on trial it does not satisfy the given conditions , correcting it by simple proportion as in rule of three . It is only applicable to a ...
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... rules of grammar , but symbols or con- tractions are used for the quantities and operations which occur most frequently . In this work Recorde shewed how the square root of an algebraical expression could be extracted — a rule which was ...
... rules of grammar , but symbols or con- tractions are used for the quantities and operations which occur most frequently . In this work Recorde shewed how the square root of an algebraical expression could be extracted — a rule which was ...
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... rule for extracting the square root of an algebraical expression . 2 Another mathematician only slightly junior to Recorde was Dee , who fills no small place in the scientific and literary records of his time , and whose natural ability ...
... rule for extracting the square root of an algebraical expression . 2 Another mathematician only slightly junior to Recorde was Dee , who fills no small place in the scientific and literary records of his time , and whose natural ability ...
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