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Numeral Algebra, or Vulgar Algebra
Numeral Algebra , or Vulgar Algebra serves to resolve Arithmetical Questions, it is so called because the Quantity unknown and sought for, is represented by some
Letter of the Alphabet, or some other Character taken at Pleasure; but all the Quantities given are expressed by Numbers,
called the
Old Algebra.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Aˊlgebra *
Literal Algebra, or Specious Algebra