[6] Why _will_ not the printers’ readers let me use this word? I _do_ use it every day of my life in talk; why may I not write it and print it? It is very short, and it is perfectly harmless. I am afraid it must mean something bad in Finnish or some other strange tongue, for the _reader_ always draws my attention to it.
[7] Fact! Old Biddy’s habit of _dashing it_ is so confirmed that there’s no hope of her outgrowing it.
[8] Inasmuch as the _general reader_ has a strong objection to the use of Decimals, it will be a comfort to him to be assured that _multiplying_ by ·0001 is the same thing as _dividing_ by 10,000; and so ·0001 (x - m)² is only another way of writing ((x - m)²)/10,000
[9] It has been only of late years that any Christian ministers other than those ordained by the bishops of the Church of England have been called “clergymen” among us. The nonconformists were always called “ministers” or “preachers.” I find myself driven to use the words “clergy” and “minister” in the old way, to avoid conveying a wrong impression to my readers.
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.
Spelling and punctuation in dialect has not been changed.
Page 166: Transcriber added closing double-quotation mark to ‘in those rude old times.” How?’ but it may belong after the ‘How?’ or in some other place.
Pages 252-253: In the formulas and explanations of them, the variables x and m were printed in italics. For readability, that is not indicated here.
Pages 264-269: In the formulas and explanations of them, the variables x and m were printed in boldface. For readability, that is not indicated here.
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