"After the present numerals had been generally adopted, it was the practice throughout Europe, to reduce the rules of Arithmetic, like these of the Latin Grammar, to memorial verses. A small tract composed on that plan, in the reign of Edward VI. by Buckley of Litchfield, a fellow of the University of Cambridge, appears at one period to have gained possession of the schools and colleges of England. It bore this title,â ARITHMETICA MEMORATIVA, sive COMPENDIARIA ARITHMETICH TRACTATIO, non solum tyronibus, sed etiam veteranis, et bene exercitatis in ea arte viris, memoria juvandae gratia, admodum necessaria: Authore Gulielmo Buclaeo, Cantabrigiensi."
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John Leslie, Philosophy of Arithmetic; Exhibiting a Progressive View of the Theory and Practice of Calculation, with an Enlarged Table of the Products of Numbers under One Hundred (1817) pp. 237-240.
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