Book:Robert Recorde/The Whetstone of Witte, whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmeteke: containing the extraction of rootes; the cossike practise, with the rule of equation; and the workes of Surde Nombers

Robert Recorde: The Whetstone of Witte, whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmeteke: containing the extraction of rootes; the cossike practise, with the rule of equation; and the workes of Surde Nombers

Published $1557$.

Subject Matter

• Arithmetic

in which can be found:

a description of the cossist practice

the first appearance in print of the equals sign

the word zenzizenzizenzic.

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