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I. THE art of computation as distinguished from the science of arithmetic it so generally neglected in our ordinary courses of education, that most men and almost all women feel the greatest difficulty and repugnance in dealing with figures. The causes of and remedies for this deficiency are discussed at some length in a paper “On teaching Arithmetic”(Journal of Education, May 1885), and the following remarks refer specially to the requirements of students of science.
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LUPTON, S. The Art of Computation for Purposes of Science . Nature 37, 237–239 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037237a0
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