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Halley’s text may be clearer if the reader notes that he intends: l 0 = 1238; L 0 = 1000; l 1 = 890; L 1 = 855. According to Westergaard (1969, p. 34) the Breslau lists showed 1218 births in 1691, among whom 992 were alive on January 1, 1692. Rounding the figure, Halley set L 0 = 1000 for 1238 births.
From Philosophical Transactions XVII. Excerpts are from pages 596–604, 610, 655–656.
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Halley, E. (1977). An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind. In: Mathematical Demography. Biomathematics, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81046-6_3
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