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# Title: LBr. 264 · Ferguson
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Excerptum ex mea responsione:
problema: de aestimatione redituum in plurium
vitas constitatorum, quod mihi olim non satis abso Autum haberi
ajebas, plane perfeci, et per multas imbages perveni ad
theorema simplicissimum, dubo exem plo aliquot, ut agnoscere
possis an mea cum illis consentiant, quae in eodem argumento
sumclim virum johamnem et Wit praestitisse scribis
si octoginta anni ponantur maximum spatium vitae humanae
et omnes auri vitae eque fatates homines apque
vitales, omnesque num vitae aeque fatales, tunc anni
a in fantum repens
praesumtivi A vitae duorum honmm ticunt natorum, quibus
scrlicet elapsis ambo extructi consentur, erunt 6d qualu
vero, hominum anni praesuntivi erunt 63+
tatuum
Ex annis
autem praesumtinis habetur aessimatio reditusum ad
vitam perinde enim est, cum reditum in vitam duorum dictorum
hominum constatuimus ac si reditam nofantium simul
natorum constituimus, ac si reditum constitueremus
in 53 annos, his elapsis una cum sorte finiendum
cujus valorem praesentem consituere ex communi ilculo
non difficile est.
Hoc eg ad Tergusonem nescripsi
Alioqui notandum  longe alium fore aestimationem
p
annorua praesumtivorum, si hono aliquis jam pert adultus est.
pericula enim transactorum annorum jam cessant. Itaque longius cum
hominis recensnati  vita praesumtiva ponatur f39. annorum, homps
qui eos a transegit annos 30 plares ad huc quam novem annos
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2
90
ou
victurus praesumi debet et perinde fractandus est, ac recers natus, si spatium
nrum unae vitae poneretur tantum annorum 5D. Hide si innorum hominum
bi veriae a labis vitas strmul. costituatur reditus perinde