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The Whetstone of Witte

  • Williams J
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-862-1_10
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"To avoide the tediouse repetition of these woordes: is equalle to: I will settle as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of paralleles, or gemowe [twin] lines of one lengthe: =, bicause noe .2. thynges, can be moare equalle." --Robert Recorde, The Whetstone of Witte (1557). http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/equals.html

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Williams, J. (2011). The Whetstone of Witte (pp. 173–196). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-862-1_10

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