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DIVISION THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

Page from a schoolboy’s notebook written about three hundred years ago. The picture is supposed to resemble an old-fashioned galley with sails set

In using the method which his teacher called the new one, Filippo saw that it was unnecessary to write as many figures as the
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