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nydus/Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1Public
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Miscellanea Curiosa.

Age.Years Pur.Age.Years Pur.Age.Years Pur.
1013,443511,12607,60
1513,334010,57656,54
2012,78459,91705,32

This shews the great Advantage of putting Money into the present Fund lately granted to Their Majesties, giving 14 per Cent. per Annum, or at the Rate of 7 Years Purchase for a Life; when young Lives, at the usual Rate of Interest, are worth above 13 Years Purchase. It shews likewise the Advantage of young Lives over those in Years; a Life of Ten Years being almost worth 13½ Years Purchase, whereas one of 36 is worth but 11.

Use VI. Two Lives are likewise valuable by the same Rule; for the number of Chances of each single Life, found in the Table, being multiplied together, become the Chances of the Two Lives. And after any certain Term of Years, the Product of the two remaining Sums is the Chances that both the Persons are living. The Product of the two Differences, being the numbers of the Dead of both Ages, are the Chances that both the Persons are dead. And the two Products

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