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On a Method of Approximating to the Rate of Interest in an Annuity-Certain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1882

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page 406 note * Tables for the formation of Logarithms and Anti-logarithms to twelve places, 1865, and Tables for the formation of Logarithms and Anti-logarithms to twenty four or any less number of places, 1876. Laytons, London,

page 406 note † log {(1+i)60 -1} is here obtained from log (1 +i) by the use of Wittstein's table of Gauss's logarithms (Hanover, 1866), a most useful companion to all seven-place tables.

page 414 note * Vide the examples on p. 412.

page 415 note * I am indebted to Mr. George King for the suggestion to compute the momently factors. The particular application of them given in the present paper is original.

page 418 note * There are 990 figures in the period of this circulating decimal.