Excerpt from Elements of Algebra: To Which Is Prefixed, a Choice Collection of Arithmetical Questions, With Their Solutions, Including Some New Improvements Worthy the Attention of Arithmeticians
The Author's defign in expatiating largely on thefe Equations, is to enable the learner; and thofe not well acquainted with this fubjeél, to determine, when B'iquadratic can be folved by a (qadratic. This is a' circdmi'cance of great importance; and the author Hatters himfelf that it is not v'ery generally underfiood.
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