Dear all,
A friend who is a professor of mathematics has asked me for help with a
passage in Filippo Calandri, _De arithmetica opusculum_, 2nd ed. 1518,
which in his transcription reads:
Vno maestro ha tanti scolari che pagando 8 s per uno diuanto gli mancherebbe
a pagarne la pigione 14 lb & paghando 10 s per uno diuanto el maestro
pagherebbe la pigione & auanzarebbe 20 lb. uo sapere quanti scolari haueua
& quanto paghaua di pigione.
The general sense seems more or less clear (if the grammatical subject of
"pagando" can be taken to be the scolari and not the maestro himself). But
what, if you please, is the meaning of "per uno diuanto"??? I honestly have
no idea, and I am presently so busy with other duties that I cannot look
anything up (also wouldn't exactly know where to look). Yet not wanting to
leave my friend's query without a reply, I thought that I might pass it on
to the collective wits of this list. Any suggestion would be appreciated!
Yours,
Otfried
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