Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6784

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                <emph style="bf">Commentary:</emph>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> Here Harriot demonstrates that multiplication by 9 increases the number of digits by one as far as the 21st power but not at the 22nd power. Thus the number of digits alone is no guide to the size of the </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> An induction to prove that
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            to pricke the second figure for
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            the extraction of square rootes
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            & the third for cubes & 4th
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            for biquadrates etc. according
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            to the nomber of figures that
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            the greatest figure 9 doth
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            produce is no </s>
            <s xml:space="preserve"> for we
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            may see how it breaketh in
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            the 22th
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            dignity & so
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> but the true case
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            of such pricking appeareth
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            out
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            the speciosa genesis which
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            is in an other paper </s>
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