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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Short and easy theorems for finding, in all cases, the differences between the values of annuities payable yearly, and of the same annuities payable half-yearly, quarterly, or momently. By the Rev. Richard Price, D.D. F.R.S. In a letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P.R.S'

Read 9 November 1775

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L&P/6/140
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1775
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Ink on paper
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20 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Price

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Richard Price, Letter, 'Of life annuities' from Richard Price to John Pringle, 1775, L&P/6/140, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_140/letter-of-life-annuities-from-richard-price-to-john-pringle, accessed on 10 December 2024

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