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... radical sign , √ , and employed the capital letters A , B , C , to denote unknown quantities . He also discovered the properties of figurate numbers , and showed how the coefficients for the different powers of a binomial can be ...
... radical sign , √ , and employed the capital letters A , B , C , to denote unknown quantities . He also discovered the properties of figurate numbers , and showed how the coefficients for the different powers of a binomial can be ...
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... radicals to their simplest form , by multiplying them by proper factors . Vieta , a celebrated French mathematician of Fontenoy ( about 1600 ) , who was by profession a lawyer , possessed of great learning , and of profound talents and ...
... radicals to their simplest form , by multiplying them by proper factors . Vieta , a celebrated French mathematician of Fontenoy ( about 1600 ) , who was by profession a lawyer , possessed of great learning , and of profound talents and ...
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... radical sign , with q placed over it , he denoted the square root ; with c over it , the cube root ; and with qq , the fourth root . He is also the first known to express decimal frac- tions without their denominators , by using a ...
... radical sign , with q placed over it , he denoted the square root ; with c over it , the cube root ; and with qq , the fourth root . He is also the first known to express decimal frac- tions without their denominators , by using a ...
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... radical sign , placed before a quantity , indicates that some root of it is to be taken ; and a small figure placed over the sign , called the exponent of the root , shows what root is to be extracted . Thus , square root of a . and ...
... radical sign , placed before a quantity , indicates that some root of it is to be taken ; and a small figure placed over the sign , called the exponent of the root , shows what root is to be extracted . Thus , square root of a . and ...
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... ( 35 ) , and n of the nth root . ( 185. ) The sign , called the radical sign , is also used to denote roots . " Thus , is the sign of the square root ; / , of the cube root ;, of the fourth root , & c .; EVOLUTION . 111 Evolution.
... ( 35 ) , and n of the nth root . ( 185. ) The sign , called the radical sign , is also used to denote roots . " Thus , is the sign of the square root ; / , of the cube root ;, of the fourth root , & c .; EVOLUTION . 111 Evolution.
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Página 76 - Multiply each numerator by all the denominators except its own, for the new numerators ; and all the denominators together for A COMMON denominator. NOTE 1.
Página 317 - Three lines are in harmonical proportion, when the first is to the third, as the difference between the first and second, is to the difference between the second and third ; and the second is called a harmonic mean between the first and third. The expression 'harmonical proportion...
Página 339 - In each succeeding term the coefficient is found by multiplying the coefficient of the preceding term by the exponent of a in that term, and dividing by the number of the preceding term.
Página 309 - Find the nth term, and the sum of n terms of the natural series of numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 . . . . Ans.
Página 223 - If A and В together can perform a piece of work in 8 days, A and С together in 9 days, and В and С in 10 days; how many days would it take each person to perform the same work alone?
Página 353 - The logarithm of any power of a number is equal to the logarithm of the number multiplied by the exponent of the power.
Página 286 - If four magnitudes are proportional, the sum of the first and second is to their difference as the sum of the third and fourth is to their difference.
Página 178 - A man was hired 50 days on these conditions. — that, for every day he worked, he should receive $ '75, and, for every day he was idle, he should forfeit $ '25 ; at the expiration of the time, he received $ 27'50 ; how many days did he work...
Página 176 - A hare is 50 leaps before a greyhound, and takes 4 leaps to the greyhound's 3 ; but 2 of the greyhound's leaps are equal to 3 of the hare's ; how many leaps must the greyhound take, to catch the hare?
Página 352 - The logarithm of the product of two numbers is equal to the sum of the logarithms of the numbers.