Selected quad for the lemma: end_n

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Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48329	The art of numbring by speaking-rods, vulgarly termed Nepeirs bones by which the most difficult parts of arithmetick, as multiplication, division, and extracting of roots both square and cube, are performed with incredible celerity and exactness (without any charge to the memory) by addition and subtraction only / published by W.L.; Art of numbring by speaking-rods, vulgarly called Nepeirs bones	Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.	1667 (1667)	Wing L1904; ESTC R21895	21,349	105

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