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> [ Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule \[He might say\] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has no square root; thirdly that the first non-existent is to the second as the circumference… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-de-morgan/imagine-a-person-with-a-gift-of-ridicule-he-might-say-first-that-a/)

[Augustus De Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustus-de-morgan/)

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