Excerpt from The First Book of Arithmetic
But subtraction is so closely connected with addition, that, as far as the primitive numbers are concerned, a knowledge of one implies a knowledge of the other. What, for instance, are 2 2from5=3, 3from5=2, more than 2, &c., but different forms of expressing the idea that 5 is made up of 2 and 3?
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