The description and use of two arithmetick instruments together with a short treatise, explaining and demonstrating the ordinary operations of arithmetick, as likewise a perpetual almanack and several useful tables : presented to His most excellent Majesty Charles II ... / by S. Morland.
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The description and use of two arithmetick instruments together with a short treatise, explaining and demonstrating the ordinary operations of arithmetick, as likewise a perpetual almanack and several useful tables : presented to His most excellent Majesty Charles II ... / by S. Morland.
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Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625-1695.
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London :: Printed and are to be sold by Moses Pitt ...,
1673.
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Arithmetic -- Early works to 1800.
Calculators.
Almanacs, English.
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"The description and use of two arithmetick instruments together with a short treatise, explaining and demonstrating the ordinary operations of arithmetick, as likewise a perpetual almanack and several useful tables : presented to His most excellent Majesty Charles II ... / by S. Morland." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A51382.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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Eucl. l. 7. Defin. XI. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c.
A prime number is that which is measured onely by an Unite.
That is to say 2, 5, 7, 11, 13, &c are prime numbers, because neither of them can possibly be divided into e∣qual parts by any thing less then an Unite.
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