The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 10Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1818 - Natural history |
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... quantity a ; which operation is called involution . Powers of the same quantity are multiplied by only adding their exponents , and making their sum the exponent of the product : thus , a4 × as = a ++ 5 = a9 . Again , the rule for ...
... quantity a ; which operation is called involution . Powers of the same quantity are multiplied by only adding their exponents , and making their sum the exponent of the product : thus , a4 × as = a ++ 5 = a9 . Again , the rule for ...
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... QUANTITY , any thing capable of es- timation , or mensuration ; or which , being compared with another thing of the same kind , may be said to be greater or less than it , equal or unequal to it . Mathema- tics is the science or ...
... QUANTITY , any thing capable of es- timation , or mensuration ; or which , being compared with another thing of the same kind , may be said to be greater or less than it , equal or unequal to it . Mathema- tics is the science or ...
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... quantity of one from the quantity of another , without the intervention of a third . Two numbers , lines , or quantities , A and B , being proposed , their relations one to another may be considered under one of these two heads : 1. How ...
... quantity of one from the quantity of another , without the intervention of a third . Two numbers , lines , or quantities , A and B , being proposed , their relations one to another may be considered under one of these two heads : 1. How ...
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