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Paper, 'Observations on the proper method of calculating the values of reversions depending upon survivorship' by Richard Price

Reference number: L&P/5/176

Date: 08 March 1770

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the proper method of calculating the values of reversions depending on survivorships'

Read 10 May 1770

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L&P/5/176
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08 March 1770
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Ink on paper
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12 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Price

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Richard Price, Paper, 'Observations on the proper method of calculating the values of reversions depending upon survivorship' by Richard Price, 08 March 1770, L&P/5/176, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_176/paper-observations-on-the-proper-method-of-calculating-the-values-of-reversions-depending-upon-survivorship-by-richard-price, accessed on 01 December 2024

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