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7 May 1815
Chrest. Tab II
As it may be For want of such an explanation Of the two adjuncts viz. square and cube
thus applied, what in many a mind, is at present the
effect?
In the case of the square root which in the interest
Square root and cube root – instead of being two different
roots belonging to the same imaginary plant. Square
root, as being that one of the two that are which is of the most
most frequent occurrence, a root, such as that of a
common radish which runs out into length, made
square, viz. as it might be by four strokes of a knife
made at the taken made in proper situations places and directions carried down along the length way of it in proper
situations.
Cube root, another sort of root a root of another
shape, such as that for instance of a turnip radish,
brought into the shape of a cube or die, by four such
strokes as the above, with the addition of two others, viz.
at the top and bottom of the radish.
Simple as the above explanation is – and most useful at least, if not
may as it seems to be for the obviating confused conceptions and misconceptions,
such as those of which the above exemplifications afford may serve as a sample.
No such explanation it will, it is believed, be as
yet to be found in any constitutional book.
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