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                <emph style="bf">Commentary:</emph>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> This page shows notation used for first, second, third, ...., ninth powers in the following </s>
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                <s xml:space="preserve"> Diophantus in
                  <emph style="it">Diophanti Alexandrini rerum arithmeticarum libri sex</emph>
                , edited by Wilhelm Xylander
                  <ref id="diophantus_1575"> (Diophantus </ref>
                ;
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                François Viète in, for example,
                  <emph style="it">In artem analyticen isagoge</emph>
                  <ref id="viete_1591"> (Viète </ref>
                ;
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                Bernard Salignac in
                  <emph style="it">Arithmeticae libri duo et algebrae totidem</emph>
                  <ref id="salignac_1580"> (Salignac 1580, </ref>
                ;
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                Michael Stifel in
                  <emph style="it">Arithmetica integra</emph>
                  <ref id="stifel_1544"> (Stifel </ref>
                ;
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                Christoph Clavius in
                  <emph style="it">Algebra</emph>
                  <ref id="clavius_1608"> (Clavius </ref>
                ;
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                Simon Stevin in
                  <emph style="it">L'arithmétique ... aussi l'algèbre</emph>
                  <ref id="stevin_1585a"> (Stevin </ref>
                . </s>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> The inclusion of Clavius in this list is particularly significant since it dates the page to 1608 or </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve">& indices
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            [
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            ec. indices of the ]</s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> ut Diophantus et
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            as in Diophantus and ]</s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> ut
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            as in ]</s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> ut Stifelius, Clavius et
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            as in Stifel, Clavius and ]</s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> ut Stevinus et
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            as in Stevin and ]</s>
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