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Excerpt from Mensuration and Practical Geometry: Containing Tables of Weights and Measures, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, Mensuration of Areas, Lines, Surfaces, and Solids to Which Is Appended a Treatise on the Carpenter's Slide-Rule and Gauging
So is signifies Proportion, as 2: 16; that is, as 2 is to 4, so is s to 16.
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