Note 123 — Chapter LXXIII
Reading edition
The Standard Temperature was 31°.24, which not being exactly 1 Quarter, another Decimal is added, (for Ease in Computation,) by which 31.24 becomes 31.25, i. e. by dividing one Degree of Heat into 100 Parts, and taking 25 of those Parts, or dividing the 100 by 25, the Answer is 4, i. e. 1⁄4 of the whole 100: or (31)1⁄4.