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As the truth of the explanation of the meaning of the expression square root may be exemplified by a plan figure like that of a Draught board exhibiting sufficient containing a competent number of squares so may the truth of the explanation of the meaning of the expression cube root be exemplified by a sufficient number of dice. Upon a line of 3 dice considered taken as a base or root you may so heap up lines of dice (2 in number, making 3 lines in the whole) that of the figure composed of them two of the surface shall exhibit each of them the appearance of a square which done, upon the square thus formed, taking it for a root or base, you heap up similar sets of dice, 2 in number, (making, in the whole 3 such sets if lines of dice, three dice in a line) in such manner that the figure composed of these 525 dice shall itself be of the form of a die. In
Identifier: | JB/135/076/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 135. |
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arithmetic |
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rudiments sheet (brouillon) |
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jeremy bentham |
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