 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1898 - 628 pages
...Vija Qanita, was able to go a step further. He gave the rule : The square of a positive number as also of a negative number is positive and the square root of a positive number is two-fold, positive and negative. There is no square root of a negative number, for , 1MS is not a square.... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - American periodicals - 1898 - 620 pages
...Vija Ganita, was able to go a step further. He gave the rule : The square of a positive number as also of a negative number is positive and the square root of a positive number is two-fold, positive and negative. There is no square root of a negative number, for ibis is not 11 square.... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - Science - 1909 - 376 pages
...which constantly arose in the solution of equations and to which no meaning had been attached. Bhaskara says: "The square of a positive as well as of a negative...of a negative number, for this is no square." The Italian algebraists called them "impossible numbers." It was not until 1797 that Caspar Wessel devised... | |
 | Jacob William Albert Young - Mathematics - 1911 - 434 pages
...complex numbers. He gave the following interesting rule : " The square of a positive as well as that of a negative number is positive, and the square root...positive number is double, positive and negative. There is no square root of a negative number because a negative number is not a square." Problems leading... | |
 | Jacob William Albert Young - Mathematics - 1911 - 432 pages
...complex numbers. He gave the following interesting rule: "The square of a positive as well as that of a negative number is positive, and the square root...positive number is double, positive and negative. There is no square root of a negative number because a negative number is not a square." Problems leading... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1898 - 624 pages
...Vtju Gantta, was able to go a step further. He gave the rule : The square of a positive number as also of a negative number is positive and the square root of a positive number is two-fold, positive and negative. There is no square root of a negative number, for ibis is not a square.... | |
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The square of a positive number as also of a negative number is positive and the square root of a positive number is two-fold, positive and negative. There is no square root of a negative number, for ibis is not a square. 