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Booth suggests that 'a number of six places, consisting of a repetition of a period of any three figures, is divisible by the prime numbers 7, 11 and 13' and presents his mathematical proof.

Subject: Mathematics

Received 6 April 1854.

This paper was published in full in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On a property of numbers'.

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AP/36/3
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1854
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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James Booth

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James Booth, Paper, 'On a property of numbers' by James Booth, 1854, AP/36/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_36_3/paper-on-a-property-of-numbers-by-james-booth, accessed on 15 September 2026

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