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| Title | Rudimentary treatise on arithmetic Rudimentary scientific works |
| Author | John Radford Young |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | John Weale, 1852 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Sep 11, 2006 |
| Length | 192 pages |
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