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... represented by an ideal line ( having zero width ) , but because the coefficients can be expressed with limited accuracy ... represent a pair of lines . Dividing an equation by a number , as in dividing ( 7 ) by 3 to get ( 9 ) , does not ...
... represented by an ideal line ( having zero width ) , but because the coefficients can be expressed with limited accuracy ... represent a pair of lines . Dividing an equation by a number , as in dividing ( 7 ) by 3 to get ( 9 ) , does not ...
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... represent an animal . For the Pythagoreans even abstracted things " have " their num- ber : " justice " is ... represent " oblong " numbers , such as those of the series 2 , 6 , 12 , 20 . . . . On the other hand , a triangle represented ...
... represent an animal . For the Pythagoreans even abstracted things " have " their num- ber : " justice " is ... represent " oblong " numbers , such as those of the series 2 , 6 , 12 , 20 . . . . On the other hand , a triangle represented ...
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... represent the soundless Objections to Zola's theory of duplicat- ing reality Reflets dans l'eau ( Reflections in the ... represent , say , a whale ; but the whale thus represented may be ( as it is in Moby Dick by the 19th - century U.S. ...
... represent the soundless Objections to Zola's theory of duplicat- ing reality Reflets dans l'eau ( Reflections in the ... represent , say , a whale ; but the whale thus represented may be ( as it is in Moby Dick by the 19th - century U.S. ...
Contents
NUMBER GAMES and Other Mathematical Recreations | 1 |
NUMBER THEORY | 14 |
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS | 38 |
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