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… In 1840, he presented a dozen papers on this topic to the Academy. He also described and illustrated the signed-digit representation of numbers, an innovation presented in England in 1727 by John Colson. The confounded membership of the Bureau lasted until the end of 1843, when Cauchy was f...
1680
Died:1760 • Cambridge
Known for:Signed-digit representation
Mathematician
Academics of the University of Cambridge • Professor
Fellow of the Royal Society