Second Cafe of the Cubick Equation x^-qx-r. 949 
gebraick quantities. See alfo on this fuhjedl clairaut’s 
Elemens d’Algebre, Part V. Se£tion 9. pages 286, 287, 
288, and a paper of Monfieur nicole in the memoirs 
of the French Academy of Sciences for the year 1738, 
pages 99 and 100. See alfo maclaurin’s algebra, 
Part I. the fupplement to the 14th Chapter, pages 1 27, 
128, 129, 130; and the Philofophical Tranfadtions, 
N°. 451. 
51. If any gentleman fhould be inclined to compute 
the feries 2 + — - ddL + fSf— - See. to more than four 
terms, he will find the firft eight terms of it to be as 
follows, to wit, 2 + — 
20s q 
■ + 
308/ 1870J 8 iii,826j 10 
gee 243^ 656 u 6 59049^ 4,782,969/ 
2,35 s i$ l2s 
120,646,960. 
.14 
J »J ' ' ^ ^ 
129,140, 163/ 2 8,i35,83p,269£ 14 ' 
