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Baily writes about the challenges of calculating tables for determining the value of life annuities in cases involving two or more lives, and presents his new method of calculation. Includes several fold-out tables for use in annuity calculations at the end of the paper.

Subject: Mathematics / Economics

Written by Baily at Gray's Inn [London].

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AP/8/3
Earliest possible date
14 May 1812
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
28 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Francis Baily

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Francis Baily, Unpublished paper, 'On a new method of calculating the value of life-annuities' by Francis Baily, 14 May 1812, AP/8/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_8_3/unpublished-paper-on-a-new-method-of-calculating-the-value-of-life-annuities-by-francis-baily, accessed on 20 January 2025

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