A Treatise on Algebra

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Macmillan, 1893 - Algebra - 646 pages
 

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Page 158 - In one of the given equations obtain the value of one of the unknown quantities in terms of the other unknown quantity; Substitute this value in the other equation and solve.
Page 280 - To find the number of permutations of n different things taken r at a time.
Page 236 - Divide the first term of the remainder by three times the square of the first term of the root, and write the result as the next term of the root.
Page 47 - Divide the first term of the dividend by the first term of the divisor, and write the result as the first term of the quotient. Multiply the whole divisor by the first term of the quotient, and subtract the product from the dividend.
Page 244 - Proportional, when the ratio of the first to the second is equal to the ratio of the second to the third.
Page 250 - Given that the area of a circle varies as the square of its radius...
Page 513 - Laplace's own words, which join the condition of equal likelihood to the fractional relationship, "the probability of an event is the ratio of the number of cases which favor it to the number of all possible cases...
Page 14 - To multiply one number by a second is to do to the first what is done to unity to obtain the second.
Page 512 - DEFINITION. If an event can happen in a ways and fail in b ways, and. each of these ways is equally likely, the probability, or the chance, of its happening is , and...
Page 244 - This is sometimes expressed by the notation a : b :: с : d, which is read

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