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1 May 1815 26 2o & 3c Chrest. Tab.II
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See Visible Sign Employing
for

To the second of these two heads, principally if not exclusively
will it is believed be found referable , the advantage 34
Cost the less, the closer
the analogy: profit
the greater: the greater
the ratio of the number
of the occasions
on which the signs
are employed to the
number of the signs
derived or derivable from the use of peculiar
visible signs in mathematics.

In algebra, in contradistinction to and almost to the exclusion of geometry are the
employment thus given to this principle been most copious
of the signs of which this language is composed, the 59
Advantage 2 probably
the greater
if not the sole advantage
number even absolutely taken is very small,
the number of the occasions on which they are employed
being even in a work of a very moderate size immense, 910
To algebra, almost
to the exclusion of Geometry,
this principle
has hitherto been applied:
signs here
few; occasions of
employing them extemely
numerous
relatively taken its smallness is still more conspicuous.

It is only to the second hand in this way to speak shortly in to the
way hand of abridgement that any in Algebra part of the use advantage derived
from the use therein made of function signs
can be referred. The effect produced by them is neither
more nor less than the presenting in a smaller compass 11
Only in the way
of abridgement as
above is any advantage
then obtained.
The signs
being signs of words
and phrases can
not facilitate conception
otherwise
than in so far
as they present to
the mind those same
words and phrases
the same ideas as those which are produced by
the corresponding portion of ordinary language. In By
the case of the cross employed to signify addition, the effect and
thence the advantage produced by it the use ofis more nor
less than the same effect as that which would be produced
by the word addition together with such other
words as may be necessary to compleat the sentencegrammatical
for or logical proposition for which this one simple
sign is commonly to off being made employed and
commonly is made & serve as a substitute.

Identifier: | JB/018/059/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 18.
Date_1	1815-05-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	8-11
Box	018	Main Headings	chrestomathia
Folio number	059	Info in main headings field	chrest. tab. ii
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d26 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	6468
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