The Elements of Universal Mathematics, Or Algebra: To which is Added, A Specimen of a Commentary on Sir Isaac Newton's Universal Arithmetic. Containing, Demonstrations of His Method of Finding Divisors, and of His Rule for Extracting the Root of a Binomial. Also A New Rule for Determining the Form of an Assum'd Infinite Series |
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Page 133 - Ternary or three of them, each £)uatetrary, &c. and you will alfa hau: all the compounded Divifors. As, if all the Divifors of the Number 60 are required, divide it by 2, and the Quotient 30 by 2, and the Quotient 15 by 3, and there will remain the indivifible Quotient 5. Therefore the prime Divifors are i, 2, 2, 3, 5 ; thofe compofed of the Pairs 4, 6, 10, 15 ; of the Ternaries 12, 20, 30 ; and of all of them 60.
Page 141 - Difference between 27 and 17, that is, 10, divides 170; but the Difference between 12 and — 13, that is, 25, does not divide 190. Wherefore I reject the latter Progreffion. According to the former, If С is — 7, and If В is nothing ; the Terms of the Progreffion having no Difference.