The Theory of Equations
Burnside, William Snow Excerpt from The Theory of Equations: With an Introduction to the Theory of Binary Algebraic FormsAn equation is said to be complete when it contains terms involving a: in all its powers from n to O, and incomplete when some of the terms are absent, or, in other words, when some of the coefficients p, , p, , &c., , are equal to zero. The term p, which does not contain a, is called the absolute term. An equa tion is numerical, or algebraical, a...