Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6783

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                <emph style="bf">Commentary:</emph>
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              <s xml:space="preserve">This sheet refers to pages 411 and 359 of Stevin's
                <emph style="it">L'arithmétique ... aussi l'algebre</emph>
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              . Similar questions appear on both pages. </s>
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                <s xml:space="preserve"> Il nous faut doncques trouuer deux nombres tells, que le quarré de la moitie du premier soit egal au & que la produict du premier par le second + 3 soit
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                We must therefore find two numbers such that the square of half the first is equal to the second, and the product of the first and the second, plus 3, is 225.</s>
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                <s xml:space="preserve"> Question XII.
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                Trouuons deux nombres tells, que le quarré de la moitie du premier soit egal au & que le produict du premier par le second + 16, soit
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                Let us find two numbers, such that the square of half the first is eual to the second, amd the product of the first and the second, plus 16, is 225.</s>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> Stevin's questions are posed with specific numbers, but Harriot examines the question in general.
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              For the sheet paginated 1) that precedes this one, see Add MS
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              . See also Add MS 6783
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              , and also Add MS 6783
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              for another problem of the same kind. </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> 2) Stevin. pag. 411. et </s>
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