Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.40
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.40
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c13.40
The cube was by the Arabs termed *Cab*, a die or cube; and they combined these terms *mal* and *cab* for compound names of the more elevated powers; in the manner of Diophantus by the sums of the powers; and not like the Hindus by their products. Such indeed, is their method in the modern elementary works: but it is not clear, that the same mode was observed by their earlier writers; for their Italian scholars denominated the biquadrate and higher powers Relato primo, secundo, tertio, & c.