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Excerpt from The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord, 1757: Being the First After Bissextile, or Leap-Year, Containing Many Useful and Entertaining Particulars Peculiarly Adapted to the Ingenious Gentlemen Engaged in the Delightful Study and Practice of the Mathematicks
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