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I am glad that Prof. Archibald's letter enables me to return to the subject of De Moivre's claim to be the first discoverer of the normal curve of errors usually attributed to Laplace or Gauss.
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PEARSON, K. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 117, 551–552 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117551b0
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