TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Correct answers to question* 15 and 16 receded from Veritas, Victor, Peter the little, Jamie, Ego, Boslin, A Victorian, Tom, A. Scribe, and Ernest. Victor.— Question 19 will answer your purpose. Enquirer.— Yoa wish to learn the extraction of the. square and oube roots : attend an evening class. .... Compass. — You cannot learn navigation without a thorough knowledge of trigonometry. A Scribe. — You are right. Two circles cutting one another cannot hare the same centre. Pryde's Euclii, edited by Chambers, is perhaps the best. Ernest — Your question is a practical one, and will therefore have a place in the Corner soon. Juvenis.— The question in the " Miscellaneous Exercises " in Gray's Arithmetic can only be solved so as to bring out the* answer by allowing 51 Sundays in the year. Nearly ninety editions of this work hare been published, and the error has not yet been corrected. Jamie.— Study the principles well. Avoid using a /feet/. None but quacks or sluggard* do so. Diligent study is the best hey for opening the stores of knowledge. Veritas. — Your conundrum received. Solutions of questions 17, 18, and 19 will be received up to September 27th, addressed to "Calculator, Sopthluid Tims."
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Southland Times, Issue 1310, 20 September 1870, Page 3
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198TO CORRESPONDENTS. Southland Times, Issue 1310, 20 September 1870, Page 3
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