Rather remarkably, just before Clairaut made his announcement, d'Alembert deposited a paper with the Academy which showed that his calculations agreed with those of Clairaut. Clairaut suggested that a term in 1/r4 needed to be added and Euler (perhaps rather wisely) agreed that Clairaut had found the error in the inverse square law before he had.
Sa halip halatang-halata, lamang bago Clairaut ginawa ang kanyang patalastas, d'Alembert deposited ng isang papel sa Academy na kung saan ay nagpakita na ang kanyang sumang-ayon sa mga kalkulasyon ng Clairaut. Clairaut iminungkahi na ang isang kataga sa 1 / 4 r kailangan na idinagdag at Euler (marahil sa halip wisely) sumang-ayon na Clairaut had found ang error sa kabaligtaran square batas bago niya.