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Excerpt from The English Cyclopædia, Vol. 4: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge; Arts and Sciences
But it is to be remembered that in this branch of the subject we have not advanced so far as to make it coextensive with the theory of powers it is in fact precisely in the condition of the theory of powers before the discovery of the multiplicity of values in 1 when n is (notional. We are thus limited to an arithmetical view of the subject.
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