17 Aug
2015
17 Aug
'15
10:58 a.m.
"Can someone whose French is better than mine comment on what Stevin says..." A Springer book called "Numbers" (1991, Ebbinghaus, et al.) translates "Et procedant ainsi infiniment, l’on approche infiniment plus pres au requis" as "and proceeding in this way unendingly, one approaches infinitely closer to the required value".