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[Commentary:
Across the top of the page are the terms of a geometric progression with multiplier .
The rest of the page contains a table of successive squares of the number that may be interpreted as . Selected powers are then added to give . A calculation on the following page, Add MS 6782 f. , shows that , that is, the number of half-fifths of a degree in a minute (where a degree is subdivided in the traditional way into minutes, seconds, thirds, fourths, and fifths by successive divisions by 60).
The entries in the table are calculated in the subsequent pages labelled c.2 to c.7; 'Spirals, series . ]
The rest of the page contains a table of successive squares of the number that may be interpreted as . Selected powers are then added to give . A calculation on the following page, Add MS 6782 f. , shows that , that is, the number of half-fifths of a degree in a minute (where a degree is subdivided in the traditional way into minutes, seconds, thirds, fourths, and fifths by successive divisions by 60).
The entries in the table are calculated in the subsequent pages labelled c.2 to c.7; 'Spirals, series . ]
in charta
[Commentary: Sheet ca.1 is HMC MS 240.v f. 419 .
[Commentary: Sheet ca.1 is HMC MS 240.v f. 419 .