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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Mathematik LH 35, 3 A 28
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subtractio
a
Quaritur latiusne sit inter subtratendum
characteres
2
si puncblare numerem a quo subtrantur
ut en
Cum numerus a numero subtrahitur, et
aracter superstans in minuendo major minor
e est quam substans in subtrahendo, tunc constat
 rem duobus modis fieri posse, uno, ut sequenti
s versus sinistram) characteri, Minuendi adjiciatur
6+ punctum quo facto laretur hadeatur ille
character unitate minor quam est: altero
ut sequenti (versus sinistram) character subtra
e
hendi adjiciatur punctum quo habeatur ille
raracter unitate major quam est. Non
video cur posterior cum quibusdam) sit prore
O
 praeferendus neque enim difficilius est unitatem
st
e
suo ad subtrahere quam addere. Imo 
quia subtractionis potissimus usus est in
sividendo, et  in dividendo necesse non est
subtrahendum scribi; Minuendo altem scrptus
est, patet praeferendam esse in sabt dividendo
due thodum priorem nisitcum multiplis
s
16
4
56y 3
17
69369
456
6
3
3
Pulchrum subtratiendi
compendium.
456∞3
s
3)
 9609
Si loco subtractionis
addantur Meullerdo com–
plementa characterum
subtrarendi ad novenarium
cumma proveniens vetimo
at cabetudextemnno
9369
chamcrene
unitate minulo, et sinisterrimo unitate aucto, erit Residuus quaesitqus
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