 ... to be performed : and, as to the negative roots of an equation, they are in truth the real and pofitive roots of another equation confiding of the fame terms as the firft equation, but with different figns + and — prefixed to fome of them ; fo that,...  The Principles of Algebra - Page 464by William Frend - 1796Full view - About this book
 | Jacques Bernoulli, John Wallis, Isaac Newton - Permutations - 1795 - 642 pages
...the fubtrattion of a greater quantity from a lejfer, which is an operation evidently impofiible to be performed : and, as to the negative roots of an equation,...talk of the negative roots of an equation, they, in fact, jumble two different equations together, and luppofe the propofed, or firft, equation to have... | |
 | George Dyer - 1824 - 736 pages
...than nothing, and that there can be no subtraction of a greater number from a less ; and that, as to negative roots of an equation, they are, in truth, the real and positive roots of another equation, consisting of the same terms as the first equation, but with different... | |
 | Frank Swetz - Mathematics - 1995 - 322 pages
...the subtraction of a greater quantity from a lesser, which is an operation evidently impossible to be performed; and as to the negative roots of an equation they are in truth the real and positive roots of another equation consisting of the same terms as the first equation, but with different... | |
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