* 
<io4 Afr. waring the General Refolution, &c. 
five has a negative root equal to it, it will have the for- 
mula of an equation of a* -1 dimenfions. 
rX»t rXm 
Let the refolution be of -this formula x = \/a, + \/(3 + 
rXtn rXf» 
\Zy+y/d'+Scc. if #, ( 3 , y, See. be confidered as the r 
power of the roots of an equation of s dimenfions, then 
will the refulting equation, of which the refolution is 
given, rife only to an equation of the formula of tri ~ 1 
dimenfions. 
In the year 17621 publilhed fome reafons, for which 
this method could not extend to the general refolution of 
algebraical equations. 
