Excerpt from The Principles and Application of Imaginary Quantities, Vol. 1: To Which Are Added Some Observations on Porisms
IV. But impossible quantities are well known to occur also in the resolution of possible questions for instance, in the resolution of the cubic equation 1 having three possible answers for r, by means of Cardan's Rule and still, from these very impossible quanti ties, by an analysis properly conducted, we have the means of discover ing the answers.
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