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Page 34 - The square of the difference of two quantities is equal to the square of the first minus twice the product of the first by the second, plus the square of the second.
Page 33 - THEOREM I. The square of the sum of two quantities is equal to the square of the first, plus twice the product of the first by the second, plus the square of the second.
Page 87 - To divide the number 90 into four such parts, that if the first be increased by 2, the second diminished by 2, the third multiplied...
Page 328 - ... the logarithm of a fraction is equal to the logarithm of the numerator minus the logarithm of the denominator.
Page 29 - In the multiplication of whole numbers, place the multiplier under the multiplicand, and multiply each term of the multiplicand by each term of the multiplier, writing the right-hand figure of each product obtained under the term of the multiplier which produces it.
Page 134 - The nth root of the product of any number of factors is equal to the product of the nth roots of those factors.
Page 164 - A vintner draws a certain quantity of wine out of a full vessel that holds 256 gallons ; and then filling the vessel with water, draws off the same quantity of liquor as before, and so on for four draughts, when there were only 81 gallons of pure wine left. How much wine did he draw each time ? 50.
Page 27 - The operation consists in repeating the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier.
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Page 209 - When four magnitudes are continual proportionals, the first is said to have to the fourth the triplicate ratio of that which it has to the second, and so on, quadruplicate, &c., increasing the denomination still by unity, in any number of proportionals.
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Treatise on Algebra |
| Author | Elias Loomis |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Harper & brothers, 1846 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 20 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 346 pages |
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