Earl stanhope on adfeBed Equations . 
be obferved, that the greater root is affirmative, notwithftand- 
ing the fign - being prefixed to feme of the terms, becaufe 
in each fraction the numerator and the denominator are affected 
by the fame fign, whether + or - . 
The chief improvement I have made confifts in approxi- 
mating to two roo s at once, by one and the fame feries, con- 
tinued backwards as well as forwards.. I have not time to en- 
large upon this fubje^t at prefent ; but the little I have laid 
will be a fpecimen of the method to be. ufed in higher 
equations. 
