Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Direct and General Method of Finding the Approximate Values of the Real Roots of Numerical Equations to Any Degree of Accuracy
Several years since I was extracting the square and cube roots of numbers by the principles of inequalities (see Nicholson's Elementary Algebra, pp. 212 and the idea occurred to me that the same principles might be advantageously applied to the solution of numerical equations. That idea, though vague in its inception, is the germ of the present production.
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