, or Root, is a certain finite expression or function, which, being evolved or expanded according to the rules proper to its form, shall produce a series. That finite expression, or Radix, is also the value of the infinite series. So 1/3 is the radix of .3333 &c, because 1/3 being evolved or expanded, by dividing 1 by 3, gives the infinite series .3333 &c. In like manner, the Radix .
See my Tracts, vol. 1, pa. 9, and 31, &c.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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