ZENSUS

, or Zenzus, in Arithmetic and Algebra, a name used by some of the older authors, especially in Germany, for a square number, or the 2d power: being a corruption from the Italic censi, of Pacioli, Tartalea, &c, or the Latin census, which signified the same thing.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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