( 5“ ) 
n pt M x ±N = o are real, therefore (feeing this 
iEquation is of the m + i Degree) th e Squa re of 
. . 7Ti — }— I 
» — m x M mulriply’d by the Fraction = 
z x m i 
will be greater than the Rectangle under » — w+i x 
77 / 
0 
m 
x L and iV, that is 
Z X 77/ -j- I 
x n — «/l * x 
n — m 
M 2 will be greater than n — m + i x — — N 
.. n — m \ 
and therefore (dividing both by n — m+ i x — — ) 
m x n x Af 2 greater than LxN. 
tt/ -f- 1 y. n — 7// + I 
Corolary. Make a Series of Fractions 
n n — i » "7 fg*-. unto — whofe De* 
7’ x ’ 3 4 » 
nominators are Numbers going on in the Progreflion 
T - 2 A &c unto the Number n which is the Di- 
mentions of the iEquation x* — Bx +C x — 
and whofe Numerators are the tame 
Progreflion inverted. Divide the fecond of thefe Frac- 
lions by the firft, the third by the fecond the fourth 
by the third, and fo on, and place the Frafhons which 
refult from this Divifion above the middle Terms of 
the iEquation, thus x" — B x"~ l ■+■ C #* a — 
