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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Elements of Plane Trigonometry |
| Author | Eugene Lamb Richards |
| Publisher | D. Appleton and Company, 1878 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 2 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 112 pages |
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