Pleasure with Profit: Consisting of Recreations of Divers Kinds, Viz. Numerical, Geometrical, Mechanical, Statical, Astronomical, Horometrical, Cryptographical, Magnetical, Automatical, Chymical, and Historical : Published to Recreate Ingenious Spirits, and to Induce Them to Make Further Scrutiny Into These (and the Like) Sublime Sciences, and to Divert Them from Following Such Vices, to which Youth (in this Age) are So Much Inclin'dRichard Baldwin and John Dunton, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, and at the Raven in the Poultrey, 1694 - Algebra - 408 pages |
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Page 11
... ( because it ex- ceeds 5 ) , the Product will be 270 , equal to the fum of all the Products in the third row . VII . Of the Digit 7 . In this Digit ( as in all the reft ) the third row , which proceeds by multiplying of the Digit 7 into ...
... ( because it ex- ceeds 5 ) , the Product will be 270 , equal to the fum of all the Products in the third row . VII . Of the Digit 7 . In this Digit ( as in all the reft ) the third row , which proceeds by multiplying of the Digit 7 into ...
Page 12
... because 6 being not found once in 2 , there remains 2 for Numerator , 6 the Divifor being the Denominator . This Rate or Reafon of Numbers is either Equal , or Unequal . 5. Equal Reafon ] Is the relation that equal numbers have one to ...
... because 6 being not found once in 2 , there remains 2 for Numerator , 6 the Divifor being the Denominator . This Rate or Reafon of Numbers is either Equal , or Unequal . 5. Equal Reafon ] Is the relation that equal numbers have one to ...
Page 13
... because the Lefs is contained twice in the Greater ; fo 6 to 2 is Triple Reafon , and 8 to 2 Fourfold Reafon , & c . And here , the Quotient of the Antecedent divided by the Confequent , is always a whole number 8 divided by 2 , the ...
... because the Lefs is contained twice in the Greater ; fo 6 to 2 is Triple Reafon , and 8 to 2 Fourfold Reafon , & c . And here , the Quotient of the Antecedent divided by the Confequent , is always a whole number 8 divided by 2 , the ...
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... Because , Whatsoever Multi- plication doth , is undone again by Divifion . And this is the true and genuine Reafon of the Operation of the Rule of Three . And that is to say , As ( 4 ) is found in ( 80 ) just 20 times ; fo ( 8 ) is ...
... Because , Whatsoever Multi- plication doth , is undone again by Divifion . And this is the true and genuine Reafon of the Operation of the Rule of Three . And that is to say , As ( 4 ) is found in ( 80 ) just 20 times ; fo ( 8 ) is ...
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... because we make a Quarter to contain 10000000 Corns ; whereas it does contain little more than half fo many ( viz . 5120000 Corns ) and that may be done by cutting off the feven laft figures towards the right hand : Then the Quotient of ...
... because we make a Quarter to contain 10000000 Corns ; whereas it does contain little more than half fo many ( viz . 5120000 Corns ) and that may be done by cutting off the feven laft figures towards the right hand : Then the Quotient of ...
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Page 11 - God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
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Page ii - I'll- give you leave to punish me. Thus as soon may the same meat please all palats, as the same sport suit with all dispositions.