ARITHMETIC OF INFINITES, is the Method of summing up a Series of Numbers consisting of infinite Terms; or of finding the Ratios thereof.
See INFINITE, SERIES, etc. This Method was first invented by Dr. Wallis; as appears from his Opera Mathematica, where he shows its Use in Geometry, in finding the Areas of Superficies, and the Contents of Solids, and their Proportions.—But the Method of Fluxions, which is a universal Arithmetic of Infinites, performs all this much easier; and Multitude of other Things which the former will not reach. See FLUXIONS, CALCULUS, etc.
ARITHMETIC OF INFINITES
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