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I HAVE read Mr. Dodwell's remarks with interest. It will be noticed that I did not say that it was my friend Mr. Siemens that made the statement, but merely that it was said at the meeting. My recollection is that he asked a rhetorical question somewhat as follows: “How were the square roots of numbers such as 6 to be found if we had no decimal system?” I am certain that I was only prevented from speaking on this question by my desire not to help the opponents of the decimal system. I did not attribute it to Siemens in my obituary notice, because I looked up the account of the meeting in the Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and found that it had been deleted, probably by the person who said it.
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R., A. Square Roots and the Decimal System. Nature 121, 907 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121907b0
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