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Paper, 'Method of determining the value on contingent reversions on three lives' by William Morgan

Reference number: L&P/10/84

Date: 1794

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Subject: Mathemcatics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the method of determining, from the real probabilities of life, the values of contingent reversions, in which three lives are involved in the survivorship'

Read 15 May 1794

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L&P/10/84
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1794
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Ink on paper
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30 pages
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Manuscript

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William Morgan

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William Morgan, Paper, 'Method of determining the value on contingent reversions on three lives' by William Morgan, 1794, L&P/10/84, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_84/paper-method-of-determining-the-value-on-contingent-reversions-on-three-lives-by-william-morgan, accessed on 12 April 2026

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