[23] See the diagram of [page 46].
[24] We recommend the reader to trace the successive substitutions backwards from (1.) to (4.), in Mons. Menabrea’s Table. This he will easily do by means of the upper and lower indices, and it is interesting to observe how each
successively ramifies (so to speak) into two other
’s in some other column of the Table; until at length the
’s of the original data are arrived at.
[25] This division would be managed by ordering the number two to appear on any separate new column which should be conveniently situated for the purpose, and then directing this column (which is in the strictest sense a Working-Variable) to divide itself successively with
