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Paper, 'On the method of determining, from the real probabilities of life, the value of a contingent reversion, in which three lives are involved in the surviorship' by William Morgan

Reference number: L&P/9/204

Date: 1791

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Subejct: Mathematics

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 26 May 1791

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L&P/9/204
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1791
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Ink on paper
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25 pages
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Manuscript

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William Morgan

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William Morgan, Paper, 'On the method of determining, from the real probabilities of life, the value of a contingent reversion, in which three lives are involved in the surviorship' by William Morgan, 1791, L&P/9/204, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_204/paper-on-the-method-of-determining-from-the-real-probabilities-of-life-the-value-of-a-contingent-reversion-in-which-three-lives-are-involved-in-the-surviorship-by-william-morgan, accessed on 16 June 2025

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