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Wo numbers with their Logarithms being given; of both Logarithms ''be divided by some common divisor, and if each of the given numbers be multiplied by itself continuously, until the number of multiplications ts exceeded, by unity only, by the quotient of the Logarithm of the other number, two equal numbers will be produced. And the Logarithm of the number produced will be the continued product of the quotients of the Logarithms and their common divisor.''

Let